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Undergraduate Majors

AgriBusiness Management (AGBM)

Environmental & Renewable Resource Economics (ERRE)

Associate degree in AgriBusiness (2AGB)
 

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Undergraduate Program Overview

The Department's undergraduate education program offers B.S. degrees in AgriBusiness Management and in Environmental and Renewable Resource Economics and a two-year Associate degree in AgriBusiness Management.

The AgriBusiness Management Program at Penn State is an innovative program that offers students an exciting opportunity in business. The Program offers a joint Bachelor of Science degree between the College of Agricultural Sciences and Smeal College of Business Administration.

Agribusiness firms in Pennsylvania alone include the Fortune 500 companies Heinz Foods and Hershey Foods. Also, smaller companies and the public sector employ those with a specialized knowledge of business in this highly competitive and global sector.

The two-year Associate degree in AgriBusiness prepares students for employment in commercial agriculture and businesses that serve agriculture.

Class sizes are small and the individual attention you get is great. And you can design a business program that is unique to you. Take a look--it can work for you.

The goal of the B.S. degree program in Community, Environment, and Development is to develop the knowledge and skills of students to enable them to assist people, their communities, and institutions effectively understand, respond to, and ultimately shape economic and social change, including those posing risks to the environment. The CED major focuses on the fields of community and economic development, environment and natural resources, and the critically important interactions between these fields, both locally and globally. Students choose one of three options in which to specialize in: Community and Economic Development, International Development, and Environmental Economics and Policy. Graduates can be found working in a variety of fields including environmental advocacy, international development, social and human service, and community design and preservation.

The B.S. degree program in Environmental and Renewable Resource Economics is intended for students interested in learning how economics is used to examine and solve environmental and natural resource problems. Resource and environmental concerns have received widespread notice over the past 30 years, and continue to be among the top three issues mentioned by those surveyed about current social problems. Our society needs people who know how to examine these problems and decide what course of action should be taken. Environmental and renewable resource economists use the ideas and methods of economics to understand the forces that lead people to act in ways that either help or degrade the environment. Armed with this knowledge, they offer information and insights to help individuals, businesses, and policymakers improve and protect the environment. The ERRE major prepares students to tackle such issues; required courses develop a foundation in economics, other social sciences, and the environmental sciences.

 

Last Updated: 05/22/2007