AREAS OF CONCENTRATION IN ECONOMICS
- Econometrics
- International development
- Community and rural development
- Food safety and nutrition
- International trade
- Natural resources and environmental economics
- Production economics
- Risk and uncertainty
- Consumer behavior and household economics
- Health economics
- Labor economics
- Forestry economics
- Analysis of markets and competition
- Agribusiness
- Agricultural marketing
- Agricultural policy
- Industrial organization
- Marketing of agricultural products
- Rural economics
- Rural Sociology
Agricultural economics trends to be more microeconomic oriented. Many undergraduate agricultural economic degrees given by the US land-grant universities ten to be more like a traditional business degree rather than a traditional economics degree. At the graduate level, many agricultural economics programs focus on a wide variety of applied microeconomic topics. Their demand is driven by their pragmatism, optimization and decision making skills and their skills in statistical modeling. Graduates from Agricultural Economics departments across America find jobs in diversified sectors of the economy. Below is just a small list:
- Accounting
- Agriculture
- Breweries, distilleries, bottling plants
- Cigarette manufacturing
- Food processing – e.g. flour mill
- Food manufacturing – e.g. cake factory
- Furniture manufacturing: production of linens, drapes, carpet
- Government and FSA offices
- Information technology
- Leather tannin, footwear manufacturing, handbag production
- Logistics and supply chains
- Pulp and paper
- Sawmills, lumber mills, wood products
Textiles processing and garment manufacturing