The University of Minnesota-Crookston in Crookston, Minnesota, offers Bachelor and Associate degrees in Equine Sciences. UMC courses specialise in equine industry management and in equine businesses. Scholars are led through a totally balanced educational process covering most areas of the equine industry, such as daily care, medicare, nutrition, exercise and coaching, management and business. Scholars graduate from this program with thorough theoretical and practical knowledge of nourishment, physiology, health and reproduction, and further, of the responsibilities that come together with equine ownership. They’re given in depth instruction on management ideas and are trained in using software and marketing techniques important to the equine industry. Aside from the management talents they’re imbued, graduates also come out as accomplished horsemen, ready to train horses of all conformations and temperaments. This type of theoretical and practical instruction enables students to shine as employees or as entrepreneurs in the equine world. They can select careers like:

– Bloodstock management/sales

– Consultant/administrator in Breed Associations

– Pedigree/buyer evaluator

– Management/sales, drug & pharmaceutical concerns

– Equine appraiser

– Sales, equine feed and nourishment

– Reporter, equine World

– Specialist, equine reproduction

– Instructor, riding and equitation

– Youth employee/coach, equestrian teams

– Extension teacher

– Manager, guest ranches

– Horse show manager

– Pony coach

– Representative, hardware for horses

– Pony judge

– Boss, horse farm ranches

– Selling and advertising professional

– Manager, stables

– Manager, stud farms

– Specialist, therapeutic riding.

Equine Programme scholars work with the 40 horses at UMC’s stables. Students are given valuable practical exposure by being made to look after the horses and by riding, grooming, training and breeding the numerous breeds represented. Unless they are in coaching or showing classes, students do not receive any special horse by way of assignment. They’re instead made to work with different horses to assist them to experience handling horses of various conformation and temperaments. Each student also receives a laptop with software applicable to their sources of study. These computers have to be used almost every day. Graduates from this establishment are sought after because of their range of equine and technical talents; these talents set them aside from graduates of other institutions.

The University’s Teaching & Outreach Centre at the north part of the campus boasts of several super features including:

– Faculty offices

– Science labs

– Interactive TV/networked school rooms

– Indoor heated arena of 90 x 120 feet with seating capacity of 205

– 45 stalls equipped with automated watering

– Gear and tack for Western, all-purpose, hunt seat and saddle seat

– Boot wash rack

– Loos

– Locker room

– Laundry room

– Round-pen

– Turnout paddocks

– Racks for pony washing

– Breeding phantom/stocks

– Tack room

– Driving carts & harnesses.

Students are free to join up in any one of the institute’s a few clubs, all equine related. The school’s IHSA riding team regularly participates as part of Zone 9, Regions 3. Members can select either Eastern or Western events at a few shows. Students can become Horseman’s Organisation members. This Association keeps the community informed on equine science, helps folk compete at varsities events, provides support to students desiring to develop their horsemanship skills, takes them on visits to equine industry companies and provides members with opportunities for social networking.

Horses are Heather Tomspassion and she enjoys sharing her extensive knowledge through her 100s of articles with other horse lovers http://horsehorses.net/