Getting Your Graduate Degree in DARE
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Overview
The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics has a graduate enrollment of approximately 36 students, with slightly more Master of Science students than Ph.D. students. The department has 16 full-time faculty members and 4 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, 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.