Agricultural Business B.S.

The program blends a strong base of agriculture, business, and general education courses while maximizing flexibility that allows students to choose electives to fit their career interests and expectations. A wide array of challenging, satisfying, and rewarding careers await graduates as demand for trained personnel in agribusiness continues to outstrip the supply of qualified graduates. Clusters of employment opportunities include agricultural sales and marketing, agribusiness management, agribusiness finance, agribusiness information management, food marketing management, global agribusiness, and rural economic development.

Program outcomes:
- Create and present a business plan that encompasses the planning, organizing, directing and controlling functions of management to the areas of operations management, marketing management, human resource management, and financial management.
- Apply the concepts of time-value of money and financing alternatives in decision-making.
- Describe how international, national, state, and local government policies, issues, and macroeconomic environments influence the performance of the food, fiber, and energy supply chains and customers.
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately apply current technologies used in agribusiness including, but not limited to the use of artificial intelligence, the use of spreadsheets, computerized recording keeping, and financial analysis software.