Is she outdoorsy at all?
There are lots of tracks within wildlife bio, but I don’t think it’s a great choice for someone that doesn’t like to be outdoors. Even if that isn’t where their job ends up, a lot of their courses will be in the field.
S23 is a wildlife bio major focusing on human/ carnivore coexistence and uses quite a bit of engineering. He is currently on a research team studying how cattle grazing affects the ecosystems of federal land, which requires the use of geospatial information systems (his minor). He ends up having to do most of his own coding. He’s also using engineering to create an AI based system to mitigate carnivore/livestock interaction.
If she likes animals, but isn’t outdoorsy, zoology and animal science are bio-centered
I thought genomics looked really interesting, but it tends to be more of a grad concentration.
There are lots of food systems related majors. At large schools, there are often bio majors in both the School of Life Sciences and the Ag School. Of those we visited, the ones in the Ag schools seemed more experiential and broadly focused, while the ones in the Schools of Life Sciences seemed very lab-focused.