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Title

Agribusiness Management

Degree Level

Bachelor of Science

Minor Code

Advisor's Name

Jennifer Leeann Williams

Advisor's Phone

(765) 494-0262

Advisor's Email

leewill@purdue.edu

Information

Increasing opportunities exist for agricultural graduates to enter managerial positions in business. These businesses may be large or small and may be organized as proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, or cooperatives. They include meat, dairy, and poultry processing industries, grain handling, feed manufacturing, and seed and fertilizer firms, transportation and storage concerns, and wholesale and retail food businesses. Although this Department of Agricultural Economics curriculum gives special emphasis to agriculturally related businesses, its requirements are broad enough to allow adequate preparation for nonagricultural businesses. This option also has enough flexibility to permit you to prepare for an international career in agricultural business and can serve as a foundation for graduate school.

Credit Hours

130

Description

Freshman Year

First Semester

(1) AGEC 20200 (Spreadsheet Use in Agricultural Business)

(3) AGEC 20300 (Introductory Microeconomics for Food and Agribusiness)

(0.5) AGR 10100 (Introduction to the College of Agriculture and Purdue University)

(0.5) AGR 11200 (Introduction to Agricultural Economics Academic Programs)

(4) ENGL 10600 (First-Year Composition)

(4) Biological sciences elective

(3) Introduction to calculus or introductory analysis elective

Total Credits: 16

Second Semester

(3) AGEC 21700 (Economics)

(3) COM 11400 (Fundamentals of Speech Communication)

(4) Biological sciences elective

(3) Humanities elective

(3) Elective

Total Credits: 16

Sophomore Year

Third Semester

(3) AGEC 22000 (Marketing Farm Products)

(1) AGEC 29800 (Sophomore Seminar)

(3) CHM 11100 (General Chemistry)

(3) STAT 30100 (Elementary Statistical Methods)

(3) Social science elective

(3) Elective

Total Credits: 16

Fourth Semester

(3) CHM 11200 (General Chemistry)

(3) MGMT 20000 (Introductory Accounting)

(3) Agribusiness management elective

(3) Humanities elective

(3) Elective

Total Credits: 15

Junior Year

Fifth Semester

(4) AGEC 42400 (Financial Management of Agricultural Business)

(3) Quantitative techniques for firm decision making or mathematics/sciences elective

(3) Social science or humanities elective

(3) Written or oral communication elective

(3) Elective

Total Credits: 16

Sixth Semester

(3) AGEC 42600 (Marketing Management of Agricultural Business)

(3) Agribusiness management elective

(3) Applied econometrics or mathematics/sciences elective*

(3) Economics elective

(3) Written or oral communication elective

(3) Elective

Total Credits: 18

Senior Year

Seventh Semester

(3) Agribusiness management elective

(5) Agricultural economics electives

(3) Economics elective

(3) Social science, humanities, or international understanding elective

(3) Elective

Total Credits: 17

Eighth Semester

(3) AGEC 43000 (Agricultural and Food Business Strategy)

(3) Agricultural economics elective

(2) Mathematics or sciences elective

(3)Social science or humanities elective (30000+ level)

(5) Electives

Total Credits: 16

Additional Information

Must complete Quantitative Techniques for Firm Decision Making or Applied Econometrics.

Department

AGEC

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