The Olivet School of Agriculture is dedicated to teaching future ministers leadership artistic vision critical thinking, and problem solving skills with the intentions of propelling Christian mission. Through theory courses and hands-on studio experience, graduates will learn basic knowledge and experience agricultural skills that are essential to teach life-long food production in preservation abilities in distress societies around the world.

Graduates will be competent in teaching basic knowledge and performing management skills in the animal science (beef, goat, sheep, swine, poultry, horses, animal disease), agronomical sciences (field crops, soils), horticultural sciences (fruits and vegetables, plant diseases, apiculture, entomology), aquaculture, and marketing.

Graduates will possess capability to help needy people help themselves by entering into stressed environments with their knowledge, skills, experience, ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness to resolve agricultural issues using locally available resources, skills, and knowledge.

Olivet University alumni will be unique whereby they can teach a holistic approach to helping people help themselves by marrying religious knowledge into the development and performance of agricultural capabilities. Expertise in the “agricultural sciences” will serve as the basis for improved mutual support between Olivet University and its associated ministries.