Welcome to Graduate Programs in Agricultural Economics

The Texas A&M Department of Agricultural Economics is a high-energy academic unit. We have an internationally well-regarded faculty who are experts in a wide range of areas of applied economic analysis. Our undergraduate and graduate programs are large and diverse.

The Department's teaching mission is complemented by its innovative and relevant research and extension programs. Agricultural Economics is becoming more important in the growing global involvement of Texas A&M University. We provide a first-class setting in which to study a wide variety of agricultural and resource issues facing society and firms. Emphasis areas include the economics of business management, environmental affairs, agricultural production, natural resource economics, commodity markets, and agricultural policy just to mention a few. Students graduating from our program have gone on to productive employment opportunities in many agricultural and non-agricultural businesses, academic positions and government service.

Graduate programs of the Department are well established and closely linked to research and extension education activities. Enrollment in the graduate program numbers more than 140 students. Our PhD program has 60+ students, and and there are approximately 40 students in the Master of Science program. The Master of Agribusiness (MAB) program, which is jointly administered with the Mays School of Business maintains a constant enrollment of 40 students. The MAB is a professional program that is uniquely focused on the food and agribusiness sector with an emphasis on combining economics and business analysis. The Master of Science degree prepares our students with the skills in decision-making and policy analysis needed in today's business world or with the research foundation to pursue a PhD. The PhD degree in Agricultural Economics is tailored to produce highly skilled applied economists focused on quantitatively-based economic research and analyses of managerial and policy questions as well as natural resource and environmental issues.