Beginning this fall, students enrolled in the University of Kentucky’s (UK) equine science and management undergraduate degree program will have the ability to better customize their college experience to match their interests and career aspirations.

Since its launch in 2007 and official implementation in 2009, the four-year science-based degree program’s curriculum has featured two main tracks for students—science and management. Under the new curriculum structure, which was approved by the university in May, students will be able to choose among four emphasis areas to better tailor their education to their interests and career goals. Those emphasis areas are equine science, business, community leadership and development, and forages/pasture management.

According to Bob Coleman, PhD, PAS, director of undergraduate studies in equine science and management, the change has been two years in the making.

“As we hit the five-year mark of the program, we re-examined the curriculum to see if it was best meeting our students’ needs,” he said