Prospective Students

Entering Freshmen: With good planning, the Grazing Livestock Systems major can be completed in four years (see sample 4-year program).

Faculty contact for new freshmen: Dr. Walter Schacht

Transfer Students: The GLS program lends itself well to students who wish to apply general studies and/or basic agriculture course credit from a community college or other institution of higher learning toward the GLS requirements. Several GLS majors began their undergraduate careers at another school. If you have attended another college in Nebraska, you can see the list of course equivalencies that will transfer to UNL at the Transfer Course Equivalencies site.

Faculty contact for transfer students: Dr. Bryan Reiling

Not from Nebraska? A sophomore at Colby Community College in Kansas learned about the GLS major from Dr. Bryan Reiling during a judging team competition. He liked what he heard about the curriculum that combined animal science, range science and economics, so he transferred to UNL that fall. He said it was helpful that the core courses he took at CCC transferred well to UNL.

Out-of-state tuition can seem prohibitive. However, there are various programs and scholarships for which a student might qualify that would make UNL very competitive even for non-Nebraskans. See the UNL Scholarships site for a listing of types of assistance. Also see the GLS Scholarships section of this Web site.