Admissions

The following is a brief description of the general requirements for admission to graduate programs in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. For further information about admission, financial assistance, course requirements, and work expectations see the Department's Graduate Handbook

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Graduate Information

Admissions

M.S. Ag Econ

M.S. Rural Sociology

PhD in Applied Economics

Graduate Handbook

Admission to graduate programs in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology requires a Baccalaureate Degree from an accredited college or university. A GPA of 3.0 or higher for the last two years (60 semester hours) and a GRE of 900 verbal and quantitative are generally required. Applicants for graduate programs in the Department are expected to have completed a minimum amount of undergraduate course work in agricultural economics/economics, or rural sociology/sociology. Students applying for admission without sufficient undergraduate background may be required to complete undergraduate courses as prescribed by the Graduate Program Committee.

All applicants for admission must submit Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores that are not more than five years old. U.S. applicants for the Agricultural Economics Master of Science and the Rural Sociology Interdepartmental program in Sociology programs should have a minimum of 450 on both the verbal and quantitative GRE tests. Applicants for the Master of Agriculture (non-thesis) degree in Agricultural Economics or Rural Sociology must have a minimum GRE of 400 on both the verbal and quantitative tests. U.S. applicants for the Doctoral Program applicants must have a combined verbal and quantitative GRE score of 900 or higher. Also, Doctoral applicants must have a score of at least 500 on the quantitative section of the GRE. The analytical section of the GRE test is not required or used for determining admission.