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  • Department of Agricultural and Resource Economic
    1176 Social Sciences and Humanities Building
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-6185
    Fax: (530) 752-8572
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Contact Graduate Studies

  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Agricultural and Resource Economics

Application Deadline

  • ADMISSION
  • Priority: Jan. 15
  • Final: Apr. 15

  • FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Jan. 15
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Jan. 15

Degrees Offered

  • Joint M.S./M.B.A. with Graduate School of Management
  • M.S. Plan I
  • M.S. Plan II
  • Ph.D. Plan B

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Three letters of recommendation
  • GRE scores

Degree Requirements

Administrative Bylaws

The M.S. and joint M.S./M.B.A. programs provide advanced training in economic analysis, statistical methods, and elective fields such as agricultural marketing, international trade, natural resources and environmental economics, economic development, financial management, and managerial economics. The Ph.D. program emphasizes rigorous training in microeconomic theory and applications, quantitative methods, and applied public policy analysis combined with production economics, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, development economics, and environment and natural resource economics.

This is a Departmentally-based Graduate Program.

For more information, visit the Agricultural and Resource Economics Web site.

Contacts

Program Chair
Richard E Howitt Ag & Resource Economics (530) 752-1521
Academic Advisers
Julian M Alston Ag & Resource Economics 9/1/09 - 8/31/11 (530) 752-3283
Stephen R Boucher Ag & Resource Economics 9/1/09 - 8/31/11 (530) 752-1527
Travis T. Lybbert Ag & Resource Economics 9/1/09 - 8/31/11 (530) 752-2772
Aaron Smith Ag & Resource Economics 9/1/09 - 8/31/11 (530) 752-2138
James E Wilen Ag & Resource Economics 9/1/09 - 8/31/11 (530) 752-6093
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Christy Hansen Ag & Resource Economics (530) 752-6185
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Shelly Archer Office of Graduate Studies (530) 754-5886