Bachelor of Science
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Agricultural and Applied Economics
- designed to prepare students for careers as applied economists managing agribusinesses,
assets, commodities, financial institutions or public agencies concerned with the
use of water, land, and biodiversity. It is also good preparation for graduate study
in economics or law. The program is flexible, allowing students to study farms/ranching,
finance, animal, crop, resource, or business management and marketing. All majors
learn how to analyze consumer behavior, market prices, optimal production, risk
management, policy and international economic issues. The program equips graduates
with the quantitative, analytical, and communication skills needed to measure, analyze,
interpret, manage, plan or predict farm, food, and resource activity and policy.
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Environmental & Resource Economics
- prepares students for careers concerning environment and natural resource use
or conservation as managers, planners, or policy makers, for example. It is also
good preparation for graduate study in economics or law. Students learn about behavioral
economics and environment and resource issues at home and around the world. All
majors learn to design and evaluate optimal resource use and policy, manage risk,
measure the value of things that are not transacted in markets, and conduct socio-economic
impact assessments. It requires a minor so that students formally augment their
economics training with a specialty in wildlife, forestry, resource, or risk management,
or, the environmental policy process. The program equips graduates with the quantitative,
analytical, and communication skills to measure, analyze, and explain environment
and natural resource opportunities, threats, goals, and policies.
- Minors: Agribusiness, Applied Statistics, and Natural Resource
& Environmental Economics
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