The Department offers both M.S. and Ph.D. programs. Areas of specialization include food marketing & industrial organization, agricultural trade & development, and environmental economics.
Graduate Assistantships are available to qualified students on the basis of academic merit, and tuition may be waived for those on assistantship.
Applicants with undergraduate training in any field are considered for both the Ph.D. and M.S. programs.
However, applicants are expected to have some courses in intermediate level of economic theory, statistics, and calculus.
Only applicants with a Master’s degree or exceptional undergraduate record are considered for the Ph.D. program.
Application and admission are centralized in UConn’s Graduate School. Please visit Graduate School Requirements page
for a description of the minimum qualifications for admission to our graduate program.
Requirements
In addition to the Graduate School’s requirements, the Department requires three letters of reference.
Please follow all application procedure on the Graduate School website. Please note that all applicants who would like to be considered for Departmental
funding are required to submit Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test scores.
To assure full consideration, applications for funding must be received by January15 (For Fall semester admission).
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