Department of
Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications
8 Degree Programs
Our degree programs lead to professional careers. Graduates are uniquely equipped for leadership, education, communication and training roles in the broad field of agricultural sciences and human performance.
8 Unique Minors and Certificates
These unique programs include a variety of hands-on learning opportunities such as magazine and podcast production, student teaching, graduate certificates with international or extension focuses, or a leadership fellows program unlike any other.
800+ Enrolled Students
Our students are training to be the next generation of communicators, educators, leaders and professionals in the food, agriculture, natural resource and human sciences.
Investing in student success
There are endless opportunities in the program and the diversity of the faculty and their knowledge is rare! I also love the relationships built with faculty and other peers.
Emily Catalan, M.S. Student
Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communications News
Determination, achievement and a relentless pursuit of service
As the fifth generation on their family’s ranch in McCulloch County, Ty ’21 and Taylor Sutton ’21 learned the value of hard work, facing challenges and never letting physical disability limit their life goals. The siblings were born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease that affects the nerve cells in the spine that control muscles used for movement. The progressive disease weakens and shrinks muscles.
Texas A&M team working with Homeland Security to protect US food supply chain from threats
The disruption of the food supply chain during the first few years of COVID made Americans aware of how critical the ability to move agricultural products reliably, safely and efficiently is, according to Texas A&M AgriLife experts. A Texas A&M AgriLife-led team is doing their part to protect the U.S. food supply chain from future threats that are accidental, intentional or an act of Mother Nature.
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