Agricultural and Resource Economics - Concentration in Decision Analysis (MS)

Concentration in Decision Analysis

Students wishing to build a concentration in Decision Analysis can build additional skills in operation research mathematical modeling that would compliment the agricultural and resource economics coursework. The number of credits remains at 30 and the core courses in the M.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics are the same with the exception of substituting APEC 807 - Math Programming with Economic Appls for APEC 834 . In addition, in place of the Signature Courses there are four operations research courses. Students declaring the Decision Sciences concentration in the Operations Research M.S. degree will take the following.

Agricultural and Resource Economics M.S. Core requirements for the Decision Analysis Concentration

(4 courses for 12 credits)

ECON 801 - Microeconomics Credit(s): 3
ECON 802 - Macroeconomics Credit(s): 3
APEC 810 - International Agricultural Trade Special Topics Credit(s): 3
APEC 807 - Math Programming with Economic Appls Credit(s): 3

Decision Analysis Concentration Quantitative Requirement

(a minimum of 4 courses for 12 credits)

ECON 803 - Applied Econometrics I Credit(s): 3
STAT 601 - Probability Theory for Operations Research and Statistics Credit(s): 3 or
STAT 670 - Intro to Stat Analysis I Credit(s): 3
APEC 602 - Survey Operations Research II Credit(s): 3
APEC 603 - Simulation Modeling and Analysis Credit(s): 3

Choose One Option for 6 Credits

APEC 869 - Master’s Thesis Credit(s): 1-6 (6 Credits) or One additional course and 3 credits of APEC 664 - Operations Research Internship (6 Credits)
One additional course and 3 credits of APEC 868 - Research (6 Credits) or