Agribusiness Management

An Interdisciplinary Program

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Dr. Vance Watson, Dean

Dr. Steven C. Turner, Department Head

Dr. Darren Hudson, Graduate Coordinator

300 Lloyd Ricks Building

662-325-2750

http://agecon.msstate.edu/M.A.B.M.

The Master of Agribusiness Management (M.A.B.M.) program is an interdisciplinary degree between the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Business and Industry. It is administered by the Agribusiness Institute. The program is designed to prepare students for employment in the management of agribusiness.

Admission Criteria—An applicant for admission to graduate study must hold a bachelor’s degree from a fully recognized four-year educational institution that has unconditional accreditation with appropriate regional accrediting agencies. He/she must meet the admission requirements of Graduate Studies and the Master of Agribusiness Management Program. Admission is based primarily on past performance, letters of recommendation, and the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) scores. Regular admission to graduate study in the M.A.B.M. program requires a minimum grade point average (last four semesters of undergraduate work) of 3.00/4.00.  When a student is deficient in one of the criteria cited, the student’s application, nevertheless, may be considered for admission based on the strength of other materials contained in the student’s application. However, reasonable minimum levels of performance must be achieved in both the applicant’s GPA and GMAT scores. International applicants not holding degrees from U.S. institutions must submit a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) report of 575 or higher to be considered for admission.

Program of Study/Completion Requirements—The Master of Agribusiness Management degree program requires a minimum of 34 hours of course work and a comprehensive academic examination.

M.A.B.M. Core—The M.A.B.M. program requires 34 hours with a core of 25 hours and nine hours of electives:

Graduate Courses:

ACC 8112     Financial Accounting and Report Analysis. 2 hours

AEC 6530      Agribusiness Internship. 3 hours

AEC 8312      Economic and Social Environment of Agribusiness Firms. 2 hours

AEC 8522      Decision Modeling for Agribusiness Management. 2 hours

AEC 8532      International Agricultural Trade and Policy. 2 hours

AEC 8542      Agribusiness Risk Management. 2 hours

BIS 8122       Multimedia Communication and Presentation. 2 hours

BQA 8112     Case Analysis Using Statistics.2 hours

EC 8103        Economics for Managers. 3 hours.

FIN 8112       Capital Acquisition and Allocation.2 hours

MGT 8121     Strategic Management. 1 hour

MKT 8112    Marketing Management. 2 hours

Approved Electives. 9 hours

M.A.B.M. Foundation—The foundation portion of the program consists of 18 graduate hours that may be satisfied in part or total by prior undergraduate or graduate preparation.

Graduate Courses:

ACC 8303     Survey of Accounting (or Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting). 3 hours

BIS 8122       Multimedia Communication and Presentation. 2 hours

BQA 8443     Statistical Analysis for Business Decision Making. 3 hours

EC 8043        Survey of Economics (or  two undergraduate economics courses). 3 hours

FIN 8052      Survey of Finance (or Financial Management or Farm Financial Management). 2 hours

MGT 8063    Survey of Management (or Principles of Management or Agribusiness Firm Management and Production Management). 3 hours

MKT 8072     Survey of Marketing (or Principles of Marketing). 2 hours

Provisional Admission—A student who has not fully met the requirements stipulated by the University and the appropriate department for admission to graduate study may be granted admission as a degree-seeking graduate student with provisional status.  Such student must have as his/her initial objective advancement to regular status.  A provisional student must receive a 3.00 GPA on the first nine hours of graduate level courses on their programs of study taken at Mississippi State University in order to achieve regular status.  Neither transfer hours nor unclassified graduate hours can be used to fulfill this requirement.  If a 3.00 is not attained, the provisional student may be dismissed from graduate study.  A student in provisional status is not eligible to hold a graduate assistantship. 

Academic Performance—Unsatisfactory performance may be defined as the failure to maintain a B average in graduate courses attempted after admission to the program, a grade of U, D, or F in any course, more than two grades below a B, failure of the comprehensive/preliminary examination, an unsatisfactory evaluation of a thesis or dissertation, failure of the research defense, or any other failure of a required component of one’s program of study.  Any one of these, or any combination of these, may constitute the basis for the termination of a student’s graduate study in a degree program; individual programs have the right to establish their own criteria.

For More Information—For more information regarding the M.A.B.M., please write to the Coordinator, Agribusiness Institute, P.O. Box 9755, Mississippi State University , Mississippi State , MS 39762 , or call 662-325-2750.