Cannabis Certificates
For cannabis certificates, students can take one class from an Affiliate Educational Opportunity provider for each level of a certificate.
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A student picks 5 classes of their choosing.
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A student picks 5 classes of their choosing.
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Students must complete level 1 first and then a student picks 5 classes of their choosing.
Why study cannabis at Roanoke?
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Custom Program
Roanoke offers a tailor-made cannabis program designed specifically for our students, rather than pre-packaged courses from a third-party vendor.
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Expert Faculty
Roanoke has a winning combination of cannabis industry experts and trained scientists. You will learn from a groundbreaking cannabis geneticist and breeder, medical practitioners, botanists and environmental horticulturists.
Cannabis Job Growth
Cannabis is not just a niche, it's a national movement that is going to drive a multi-billion-dollar industry that's going to need people.
Cannabis Job Prospects
The cannabis job market is rapidly growing. Here are coast-to-coast salary averages:
- Lead Cultivation: $80k
- Director of Cultivation: $140k
- Product Development Mgnt: $100k
- Director Quality Control: $140k
- Market Research Analyst: $80k
- Dispensary Manager: $65k
- Post-Harvest Management: $70k
- Irrigation/Fertigation Mgnt: $80k
- Fertigation Technician: $65k
- Operations Director: $200k
- IPM (pest) Manager: $130k
- Lab Testing Supervisor: $100k
- Compliance Supervisor: $90k
- Compliance Specialist: $70k
(Data from Vangst, Flower Hire and CannaBiz Team)
Note: If a student would like to apply for college credit at a later date, they must complete through Level 2 of a certificate option and submit a capstone project. This project will be a concise culminating project to integrate the student’s learning; the project will be designed with guidance from Dr. DorothyBelle Poli.