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Food and Agribusiness Marketing

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Marketing and managing the food and fiber industry

Focus on an area of high need in the business world. Food and fiber industries constitute approximately 16 percent of the U.S. economy with a value of over $2.5 trillion and 20 million jobs. The production of food is only a small part of this total, with most of the effort, resources and jobs involved in creating and marketing products to consumers. The major focuses on the unique aspects of these industries, including food marketing, management and leadership, and entrepreneurship. Not only will you obtain a strong background in business principles, you will graduate with the knowledge of how the agribusiness sector operates and impacts domestic and world economies. The job market is hungry for students well trained in business but who also understand the unique nature and dynamics of the food and fiber industry.听

AREAS OF ST91原创Y

  • Strategic Selling and Buyer Communication
  • Food and Fiber Marketing
  • Establishing and Managing a Food and Agribusiness Enterprise
  • Accounting
  • Business Management and Marketing
  • Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
  • Economics of Biotechnology and New Technologies
  • Surveys and Economic Experiments
  • Statistical Research Methods

CAREER OPTIONS

  • Food Marketing
  • Food Sales
  • Produce and Food Brokering
  • Investment Banking
  • Agricultural Chemical Sales
  • Market Analyst
  • Pharmaceutical and Veterinary Medicine Sales

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

  • Economics
  • MBA
  • Resource Economics
  • Marketing
  • Law
  • Finance
  • International Marketing
  • Agribusiness Finance

What鈥檚 special about this program?

You will gain sound business training across two 91原创 colleges, beginning with basic business principles, accounting and marketing coursework while adding the focus of food marketing, human resource management, strategic selling and buyer communication, economics of biotechnology, international trade, management of a new business, food retailing and buyer behavior. You will explore the food market system from the farm to consumer and learn to market food commodities from cereal and produce to poultry. Gain confidence working with data, performing statistical analysis, understanding consumer experiments and developing surveys. In addition, you will have an opportunity to enhance your undergraduate experience by joining our award-winning student chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Association where the group designs a marketing project and enters a nationwide competition against other universities each year.听

Get Involved

Ag Ambassadors

Agricultural College Council (AgCC)

Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity (AGR)

Alpha Zeta (AZ)

American Society of Landscape Architects Student Chapter

Animal Science Club

Beekeeping Club

Blue Hen Birding

Collegiate 4-H

Collegiate FFA

Entomology Club

Equestrian Team

Food Marketing Club

Food Recovery Network

Food Science Club

Horticulture Club

Hydroponics Club

Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANNRS)

Pre-Veterinary Club

Philadelphia Flower Show Club

Sigma Alpha Sorority (SA)

Students for the Environment

The Wildlife Society

Sample curriculum

APEC135

Introduction to Data Analysis

APEC150

Economics of Agriculture and Natural Resources

APEC212

Food Retailing and Consumer Behavior
ENGL110

First Year Writing

First Year Seminar

MATH221 or 241

Calculus 1 or Analytic Geometry and Calculus A

Breadth Requirement

Free electives

ACCT207

Accounting I

ACCT208

Accounting II

APEC345

Strategic Selling and Buyer Communication

COMM212

Oral Communications in Business

ECON103

Introduction to Macroeconomics

ENGL312

Written Communications in Business

Electives

Breadth Requirement

APEC310 or APEC315

Strategy and Behavior - Introduction to Game Theory听 or听 Behavioral Economics

APEC316

Economics of Biotechnology and New Technologies

APEC404

Food and Fiber Marketing

BUAD301

Introduction to Marketing

LEAD100 or APEC412

Leadership, Integrity and Change听 or听 Strategic Marketing Competition

Electives

APEC409

Surveys and Economic Experiments

APEC410

International Agricultural Trade and Marketing

APEC430

Establishing and Managing a Food and Agribusiness Enterprise

College of Business and Economics Electives 1/2 and 2/2

Electives

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