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Our current and former students are talented innovators and entrepreneurs taking on the capstone course AGEC 425 with force and determination. Browse our blog to meet some of the grinders and survivors who have paved the way and gained professional expertise from their time as a student in our program.

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Agribusiness Entrepreneurship in the News

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences helping develop entrepreneurs

At Texas A&M, the Rister ’74 Agribusiness Entrepreneurship program uniquely equips and positions both rural and metropolitan entrepreneurs, inviting them to “Dare to Soar” with their own entrepreneurial aspirations.   

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences creates customized professional development

Texas A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is launching a new office for student professional development, where all undergraduate and professional graduate students may enrich their education and competitiveness in the marketplace through unique and targeted academic programming.

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