JEONBUK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Our department is...
Our agricultural economics major is the social science major of the College of Agricultural Life Sciences. The purpose of establishing the department is to study economic, sociological, and historical issues related to agriculture, rural, farmers, and food at home and abroad and to contribute not only to Korea's agricultural development but also to the national economic development. After recruiting 70 students in August 1951 and giving up 62 graduates in March 1955, the graduate master's program was established in 1966 and the graduate Ph.D. program was established in 1979, integrated with the Department of and Bioresource Sciences Distribution Economics in 2014, and the Department of Agricultural Distribution (Agricultural Economics and Food Distribution) was established and operated separately in 2017. The faculty of this department actively conducts research on agricultural production, agri-food economy, agricultural management, agricultural distribution, agricultural policy and regional development, agricultural informatization, agricultural resources, and environment related to agriculture, farmers, rural and agricultural-related industries, and contributes greatly to the academic development of agricultural economics and the revitalization of agriculture and the local economy.
What do I study...
Agricultural economics is a field of economics that deals mainly with agricultural, agricultural food, and rural issues from an economic perspective. The research area is various economic, sociological, and historical issues related to agriculture, agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, and the theoretical basis is economics.
Therefore, students study not only economic principles, microeconomics, macroeconomics, economic mathematics, statistics, sociology, economic history, and agricultural history, but also sociology, food economy, and history for awareness of rural communities.
What can I do afterwards...
Graduates of our major are awarded with a history of economics, a master's degree in economics, and a doctorate in economics in that they belong to the social science (division of economics) due to their academic nature. Due to the nature of various disciplines, graduates of this department are entering various fields such as general companies, financial institutions, national administrative institutions, agricultural and fisheries cooperatives, food companies, distributors, and agricultural-related institutions. In particular, recently, there is a tendency that the number of graduates who have entered agricultural-related institutions related to food tends to increase.