Agricultural Economics (MSc, Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate)
Is this programme for me?
This programme provides you with the essential tools required for theoretical and empirical economic analysis, particularly in relation to the renewable natural resources sector. You are able to take modules orientated towards development, production, marketing, and policy.
Programme aims
The programme will facilitate the development of:
- an extended knowledge of contemporary economic theory
- the skills to analyse problems concerning choice and resource allocation on national and international markets
- the ability to access and synthesise the relevant economic literature to undertake further research or study in the field of agricultural economics
- the skills to communicate the results of economic analysis to interested parties.
Programme summary
| You study | Study period | Cost (2012-13) | |
| MSc | 10 modules | 2-5 years | £9,600 |
| Diploma | 8 modules | 2-5 years | £7,530 |
| Certificate | 4 modules | 1-5 years | £3,935 |
| Individual Professional Awards (IPA) |
Individual modules are ideal if you're keen to update your professional knowledge, enhance your career or sample the programme. Students who subsequently register for either the MSc or Postgraduate Diploma will be credited with any individual modules completed successfully. For 2013, the fee per module is £995.
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Career progression
Graduates of this programme will typically find work as environmental economists in the following fields:
- government ministries undertaking work in agricultural policy analysis
- public and private sector companies involved in upstream and downstream agricultural industries
- international and non-governmental organisations concerned with the economic analysis of agricultural sector issues
- applied research and teaching in institutions of research and higher education.
Comprehensive study materials and support
For each module we send you detailed study guides, textbooks and supplementary study materials which may include computer software. Most module study guides are now provided in electronic CD-ROM format. Tutorial support is via an online learning environment and tutor-marked assignments. Increasing numbers of students participate in electronic seminars and other networked activities. This allows for a range of contacts and peer-learning possibilities that will help to enrich the distance learning experience.
Your time commitment
The study time required for each module is, on average, 7-8 hours per week over a period of 30 weeks (plus 4 weeks for revision).
Summary of key dates
| Application deadline | 30 November | ||
| Enrolment deadline | 9 January | ||
| Programme starts | February | ||
| Examinations take place | October | ||
MSc: 10 modules (4 core, 4 elective plus 2 research)
Postgraduate Diploma: 8 modules (4 core plus 4 elective)
Postgraduate Certificate: 4 modules (at least 3 core plus up to one elective)
Postgraduate Certificate: 4 modules (at least 3 core plus up to one elective)
Core modules
- Economics and institutions for development or Economic principles
- Agricultural trade and policy
- Food security and social protection
- Political economy of public policy
Elective modules
- Applied econometrics
- Climate change and development
- Marketing for small agribusinesses
- Natural resource economics
- Project planning and management
- Rural development
- Socioeconomics of rural livelihoods
- Understanding poverty
- Water resources management
- Rural finance
- One module selected from another programme
Research modules (MSc only)
- Research methods
- Dissertation
Individual Professional Awards
Modules can be taken as Individual Professional Awards (IPA) for professional development or as a taster of the full degree, diploma or certificate programme. To apply, please fill in the IPA application form available on the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (SOAS) website.
Modules can be taken as Individual Professional Awards (IPA) for professional development or as a taster of the full degree, diploma or certificate programme. To apply, please fill in the IPA application form available on the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (SOAS) website.
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