Agricultural Business Management Major

Fund your education

As an agricultural business management student, you can apply to the Renk Scholarship Program offered by the Renk Agribusiness Institute. Join a cohort of Renk scholars and receive tuition support, mentorship, internship and job opportunities, and a network of support.

Get involved. Find your people.

Explore a few of the other agriculture and business-related student organizations at UW–Madison:

Study abroad and gain global perspective

Gain valuable regional experience, world languages, and intercultural knowledge while studying the global and regional issues that impact agricultural markets here in Wisconsin, the United States, and abroad.

Study health and food systems in Ghana, take an international economics course in Denmark, intern with a tea farm in Japan, and so much more. You can also choose from one of UW–Madison’s many semester, summer, and short-term study abroad programs and map your study abroad experience as an agricultural business management major.

Test your skills and compete

Join the UW–Madison team that competes in the annual CME Group University Trading Challenge competition. This simulated trading competition pits hundreds of college teams from around the world against one another as they make real-time commodity trading decisions.

Challenge yourself with case studies, competitions, and events with other ABM majors as a member of the Agricultural Business Management Club, an organization hosted by the Renk Agribusiness Institute on campus.

Gain real-world experience

Engage in economics research on both domestic and international topics working with a faculty in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. Explore real-world problems in community economic development, development economics, economics of agriculture, and environmental and resource economics.

Tackle a business problem proposed by industry partners in our experiential learning capstone course, Classroom Consulting. You’ll be matched with a business and have the the opportunity to apply your learnings to a real-world project. Your student team will work alongside a business, create a solution to one of their challenges, and present your project to industry professionals.

Earn a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in 5 years

Agricultural business management students can apply to the 4+1 Accelerated MSPO Pathway program and earn their bachelor’s degree and master’s degree within 5 years. Receive your Master’s of Science in Agricultural Economics—Professional Option just one year after completing your bachelor’s degree.