West Coast Equestrian Colleges?!?

Question

I'm about start my junior year and I need to start finding colleges. I want to pursue a career in Equine Instruction and Training. (Pretty much I wanna be a horse trainer). I want to go to the West Coast or stay near Colorado. Does anyone know good colleges that are west of Colorado? I don't want to go to the east coast!

Thanks so much. Please help!

Answer 1

Try this website, you can search colleges by a bunch of different criteria :)

http://www.horseschools.com/rankings.asp

Good luck!

p.s I go to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and I absolutely LOVE it. I can give you details on the program and city if you want. I have my three horses down here at college with me aswell. Shoot me an email. [e-mail]

Answer 2

Oh my goodness your just like me! Well i have the most perfect college for you! Please check it out. It is the same one i am going to. Im about to start my junior year too.Its the BEST equine college you can go to to become a horse trainer. I guarentee you this! Its located in montanna and it is the only college in the whole world that has a degree in natural horsemanship. It just recently started a while ago.

http://www.umwestern.edu/

there is a course you can take that requires your very own horse so you get to have a horse while your in college! wow huh! hope you check it out.

Answer 3

I am not sure if this is what your looking for but check Feather River College in Quincy, California. I used to live near there and know they have a number of Equine studies but I can't say how good they are.

Answer 4

I've heard really good things about Colorado State University.  But I live on the East coast, so I'm sure there are others that I just don't know about.

Answer 5

Well the best right now would be Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, then CP Pomona and not sure if they have classes on horses, but know that they have limited boarding to students, Stanford University.

Answer 6

UC Davis, to the California schools that are listed.

Oregon State has a vet program and a equestrian team, but I don't think they have a equine instruction program to my understanding.  

Answer 7

Good answer - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA or Cal Poly Pomona, CA

both have excellent equine programs depending on your long term interests.  Research and visit each school.  If your eventual goal is to be a trainer I would educate yourself at the highest level you can. I would also concurrently (if possible) apprentice with as many different trainers as you possibly can.  There are so many different methods of training out there, to limit yourself to only a selected few is very closed minded.  There are good points and bad points to most everything, the more diverse you are the better.  Also ride as many disciplines as you can, dressage, reining, western, hunter/jumpers, ranch horses, charro, gymkhana, etc, they all have something to offer as far as education.  

Apprenticing is what gets you known in the "world".  Being seen at shows or competitions with well known trainers, being schooled by them, schooling horses for them - invaluable.  

Good luck.

Answer 8

I am in the same situation as you. I have done tons and tons of research since middle of my sophmore year and heres what i found.

For about $13,000 you would get room and board, meal plan, tuition, and horse board. This is at Central Wyoming College in Riverton WY.

Wyoming is the leading state in the horse industry so you are bound to find a good job. Here at the equestrian program you can do english or western and get to ride 2 times per week with a instructor and as many other times as you want for practice. It is rated one of the top equestrian colleges in the U.S

I would definitly check it out

Heres the web adress and you can sign up for information to be mailed to your house

Good luck on your search

http://www.cwc.edu/Academics/Programs-of...