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  • Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    1176 Social Sciences and Humanities Building
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-6185
    Fax: (530) 752-8572
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

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

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Priority: Jan. 15
  • Final: Apr. 15

    2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Jan. 15
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

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

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

Exceptions

  • 9 quarter appointment rule exception: 12 quarters allowed

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 website.

Contacts

Program Chair
Richard J Sexton
(Department Chair) 		Ag & Resource Economics (530) 752-4428
Stephen R Boucher
(Graduate Program Chair) 		Ag & Resource Economics (530) 752-1527
Academic Advisers
Stephen R Boucher
(Adviser: Admissions and Primary Contact) 		Ag & Resource Economics 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-1527
Hossein Farzin
(Adviser: General) 		Agricultural and Resource Economics 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 752-7610
Travis T. Lybbert
(Adviser: General) 		Ag & Resource Economics 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-2772
Jeffrey C Williams
(Adviser: General) 		Ag & Resource Economics 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 754-7625
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Christy Hansen Sandoval Ag & Resource Economics (530) 752-6185
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Shelly Archer Graduate Studies (530) 754-5886