Sustainable Agriculture Graduate Program
Solving Real-World Food Challenges Through Interdisciplinary Innovation
The Sustainable Agriculture (SUSAG) program at Iowa State University equips students to have a positive global impact by training them to think across disciplines to tackle real-world challenges in food security, environmental quality, and community development. Our graduate program is intended to integrate knowledge and problem-solving skills from the agricultural sciences with those from ecology, the social sciences, and ethics.
Academics
The program provides advanced training for students and facilitates interdisciplinary research focused from experienced faculty across our 20+ departments, spanning the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Design, Engineering, Human Sciences, and Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Our program is a vibrant community of students, faculty, and staff who share a commitment to maintaining and improving agricultural productivity while working toward an agriculture that is more just and environmentally sound.