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OVERVIEW
The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
has a
graduate enrollment of approximately 33 students, with 18 Master of
Science and 15 Ph.D. students. The department has 16 full-time faculty
members and 3 special appointment assistant professors, which provides
a very favorable graduate student/faculty ratio and allows faculty to
work closely with graduate students.
The graduate program in the Department of Agricultural
and Resource Economics emphasizes real world problem solving. It
applies economic theory and quantitative methods to problems in the
areas of Agricultural Business and Marketing Economics, Agricultural
Production and Finance Economics, International Development Economics,
and Natural Resource and Environmental Economics. The department has
long enjoyed an international reputation for excellence in teaching and
research.
Graduate students design programs appropriate to their
individual needs. There is sufficient flexibility in both the M.S. and
Ph.D. programs for students to supplement the core requirements with
course offerings from the department and from outside the department.
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