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Go beyond the basics of business and economics to solve global challenges in food, agriculture, sustainability, and financial markets. This flexible major allows you to customize your education by choosing between two concentrations:

• Agri-Accounting
• Agricultural & Applied Economics

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Prepare to solve everyday consumer and marketplace challenges. Through coursework in personal finance, financial economics, and market dynamics, you'll gain a true understanding of consumer behavior.

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Learn to assess the economic impacts of the most pressing resource and energy challenges. By combining economic theory with modern data science skills, you'll learn to create efficient, equitable, and sustainable policy solutions for both the public and private sectors.

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Examine the finance and economics of individuals, households, and small businesses. From risk management to retirement and estate planning, you'll study how the marketplace meets client needs. As the only major on campus qualifying you to sit for the Certified Financial Planner™ exam upon graduation, this program prepares you for an immediate resume booster.

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Learn how agricultural technology, supply chains, finance, and marketing all work together. You’ll gain skills in business strategy and corporate management while customizing your degree with coursework in commodity marketing, big data, or global finance.

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Dive into public policy and its real-world legal applications. You’ll explore the legal frameworks and institutional structures governing society, learning how to analyze and improve policies affecting agriculture, the environment, consumers, and international relations through hands-on learning experiences.

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Students in this concentration learn marketing and management skills and meet with industry leaders and managers. This concentration includes many hands-on learning opportunities, ranging from seminars with visiting executives to internships at top companies.

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Students majoring in any concentration in ACE are permitted to apply to transfer into the new curriculum. The major which is mostly closely aligned with Agribusiness Markets and Management is Food & Agribusiness Management, BS. Unsure of which curriculum is best for you? Check out our pre-recorded info session, available here.

Students in this concentration discover how to apply accounting principles in financial, production, processing, or retailing sectors of the agriculture and food industry.

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Students majoring in any concentration in ACE are permitted to apply to transfer into the new curriculum. The major which is mostly closely aligned with Agricultural Accounting is Agricultural and Consumer Economics, BS, Concentration: Agri-Accounting. Unsure of which curriculum is best for you? Check out our pre-recorded info session, available here.

Students in this concentration develop knowledge and skills to help consumers with everyday problems. Coursework in consumer economics, personal finance, and economics provides students with a broad-based background and understanding of the role of consumers in the marketplace.

A student can choose an emphasis in consumer economics, family economics, or financial planning and counseling.

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Students majoring in any concentration in ACE are permitted to apply to transfer into the new curriculum. The major which is mostly closely aligned with Consumer Economics and Finance is Consumer Economics and Finance. Unsure of which curriculum is best for you? Check out our pre-recorded info session, available here.

Focusing on environmental and resource management issues at local, state, national, and international levels, students learn how to assess the economic aspects of resource and environmental issues and find rewarding positions in government, industry, consulting firms, and public interest groups. Students may apply in their first year to join the Policy Scholars Program.

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Students majoring in any concentration in ACE are permitted to apply to transfer into the new curriculum. The major which is mostly closely aligned with Environmental Economics and Policy is Environmental & Resource Economics & Policy. Unsure of which curriculum is best for you? Check out our pre-recorded info session, available here.

Students in this concentration study finance, risk management, and economics as applied to the management of a complex farm enterprise or ownership of rural real estate.

Students prepare to manage farms as owners, tenants, or employees; to work as professional farm managers for off-site owners; and to work in real estate appraisal, which requires state certification.

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Students majoring in any concentration in ACE are permitted to apply to transfer into the new curriculum. The major which is mostly closely aligned with Farm Management is Food & Agribusiness Management. Unsure of which curriculum is best for you? Check out our pre-recorded info session, available here.

Students in this concentration study finance as used in agribusiness, farming, financial institutions, and, more broadly, in the financial services industry.

Degree Requirements

Students majoring in any concentration in ACE are permitted to apply to transfer into the new curriculum. The major which is mostly closely aligned with Finance in Agribusiness is Food & Agribusiness Management. Unsure of which curriculum is best for you? Check out our pre-recorded info session, available here.

Students in this concentration study finance and economics as they apply to individuals, households, and small businesses in the course of accumulating and using financial resources.

Students are introduced to issues of credit management, insurance, and other risk management strategies, saving and investing, retirement planning, and estate planning. Visit the Financial Planning website to learn more about the degree, connect with program leadership, and stay up to date on events!

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Students majoring in any concentration in ACE are permitted to apply to transfer into the new curriculum. The major which is mostly closely aligned with Financial Planning is Financial Planning. Unsure of which curriculum is best for you? Check out our pre-recorded info session, available here.

Students receive a broad exposure to policy, international trade, and agricultural development. The concentration provides a global and societal perspective for administration, government, policy analysis, social processes, and international economics.

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Students majoring in any concentration in ACE are permitted to apply to transfer into the new curriculum. The major which is mostly closely aligned with Policy, International Trade and Development is Public Policy & Law. Unsure of which curriculum is best for you? Check out our pre-recorded info session, available here.

Students in this concentration become experts in the economics of public policy in general and in its application to specific areas of interest. Students may apply in their first year to join the Policy Scholars Program.

This concentration will expose students to the legal and institutional structures in which policies are developed, the analysis of the economic impacts of policies, and special circumstances of public policy and law pertaining to the environment, consumers, the agricultural sector, and international relations.

Degree Requirements

Students majoring in any concentration in ACE are permitted to apply to transfer into the new curriculum. The major which is mostly closely aligned with Public Policy and Law is Public Policy & Law. Unsure of which curriculum is best for you? Check out our pre-recorded info session, available here.