The Institute for Plant Breeding, Genetics & Genomics offers a Masters degree and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Plant Breeding, Genetics & Genomics. Interested students can apply for admission through the Institute. Our mission is to develop improved plant cultivars from agronomic and horticultural species of importance to Georgia, the US, and worldwide. Institute faculty train graduate students in modern plant breeding methods and conduct basic research on the genetics of crop traits important to agriculture and human kind. An overall core curriculum for each degree ensures broad training, while providing the flexibility to emphasize topical areas of greatest interest to individual students. Each student will conduct their thesis or dissertation work under the supervision of his/her major professor and an advisory committee. Admitted students will receive competitive assistantships.