OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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The Department of Applied Economics invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor with a start date of September 2022. The focus areas for the faculty positions are: agricultural production including agricultural and food business management; and regional/community economic development. Both positions afford the opportunity to integrate an extension/outreach emphasis with applied scholarship, research and teaching, and address a broad range of issues relevant to Oregon’s urban and rural communities and innovative agricultural and food industries. Full consideration: submit application materials by January 15, 2022. Screening begins Dec 15, 2021.
We use economic tools to understand and help solve society’s problems, from maximizing local business vitality to limiting environmental degradation and climate change.
We offer undergraduate degrees in Agricultural and Food Business Management and in Environmental Economics and Policy. Both programs offer training in economics and quantitative analysis applied to agricultural, environmental, business, and policy issues.
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We award PhD, MS, and MA degrees in Applied Economics. The program includes core courses in economic theory, econometrics, and other quantitative methods. Concentration areas include the economics of natural resources and environment, trade and development, marine resources, and rural development.
Bill and Karla Chambers, alumni from our department and owners of Stahlbush Island Farms in Corvallis, recently were honored with the College of Agriculture Distinguished Alumni Legacy Award (see ...
Our PhD student Alejandro Abarca has just gotten a grant to study the effects of police interventions on crime in Costa Rica.
The grant is supported by the Knowledge Network on Citizen Security (CONOSE), which is a consortium o...
Our PhD students complete a research project during their second year in the program, and each year the department presents an award for the best Second Year Paper. In 2020-2021, the best Second Year Paper award goes to Emma Gjerdseth...
For more than 20 years, the Oregon State University’s Department of Applied Economics has partnered with the Oregon Department of Agriculture to produce and update an analysis and report of the economic impact of agriculture in the sta...
OSU's Department of Applied Economics has been named one of the top 10 online economics degrees for 2021 by Best Value Schools!!