Agribusiness Non-Thesis
Program Description
- Careers in agribusiness, industry, commercial sector, analyst positions, and public sector
- For those interested in management, marketing, finance, and logistics
- May enroll in up to six hours at Walton College of Business (WCOB)
- Encouraged to complete an internship for graduate credit
- Includes courses in research techniques and agricultural policy
- Completion time 12-16 months
Degree Requirements
- Admission to the program
- Successful completion of the courses (31 credit hours) included on an approved plan of study with a GPA of 2.85 or higher
- Successful passage of the written comprehensive examination
Core Requirements
AGEC 51003 Agricultural Microeconomics
AGEC 54003 Quantitative Methods for Agribusiness
AGEC 50101 Seminar
Choose one of the following:
AGEC 43703/50703 Basis Trading: Applied Price Risk Management
AGEC 53003 Agricultural Marketing Theory
AGEC 42403/54103 Agribusiness Strategy
Choose one of the following:
AGEC 41403/50403 Agricultural Finance
AGEC 43103/52103 Agricultural Business Management
AGEC 43203/51203 Agribusiness Entrepreneurship
AGEC 51403 Financial Management in Agriculture
Choose two of the following:
AGEC 41603/50603 Agricultural and Rural Development
AGEC 46103/52303 Political Economy of Agriculture and Food
AGEC 46203/52203 International Agricultural Trade and Commercial Policy
AGEC 51303 Agricultural and Environmental Resource Economics
AGEC 51503 The Economics of Public Policy
AGEC 56203 Quantitative Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis
Suggested Elective Courses
Any of the courses not chosen above
AGEC 43003/52003 Advanced Agricultural Marketing Management
AGEC 43803/50803 Basis Trading: Case Study
AGEC 44003/50503 Advanced Farm Business Management
AGEC 5030V Internship in Agricultural Economics
AGEC 56103 Econometrics
AGEC 57103 Food Safety Law
Any ACCT, ECON, FINN, ISYS, MBAD, MGMT, MKTG, OMGT, SCMT, or WCOB class.
Electives can be taken from other UA colleges with approval from the student advisor.
A maximum of 9 hours of 4000 level courses are allowed toward satisfying degree requirements.
Comprehensive Exam
All non-thesis students must pass a written comprehensive exam. Students who enter the domestic non-thesis program as of Fall 2014 will follow these procedures.
Students must answer four questions:
- Part I consists of questions associated with the materials presented in AGEC 51003 and AGEC 54003. Students must answer both questions.
- Part II consists of three questions, each related to the marketing, finance/management and policy courses. Students must answer two questions, each from different areas. That is a student cannot choose two questions from one area. For example, a student cannot choose two policy questions, but instead he/she must choose a question from policy and one other area.
Because the exam is offered at the end of each semester, and because it takes at least one week for it to be graded, the results of the exam are typically announced after the University deadline for completing all degree requirements. Therefore, a student who successfully completes the exam in any given semester should not expect to be awarded the M.S. degree until the following semester. The possible grades are: (1) pass, (2) marginal pass and (3) fail. Students receiving a marginal pass may rewrite the marginal or failed areas on another examination that will be given three weeks after the original examination. Students who fail the exam will have to wait until the next regularly scheduled examination.