Degree:Master of Agriculture
Graduate Program in
Agricultural and Rural Economics
Consider a sustainable society based on food/agriculture/rural community.
Studying interdisciplinary field with community design studies based on agricultural economics as a core element provides students with multifaceted and comprehensive vision to review changing food, agriculture and rural communities as a leader of new agriculture and rural community who can contribute to healthy and prosperous people's lives and sustainable development of society. Acquire advanced expertise and skills for new designs by highly analyzing abundant wisdom and practices in the community as well as collaborative and cooperative relationship with cities.
Three Educational Policies
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Education and research of this program
The skills and Education and research of this programOur target in education
Human resources who acquire advanced knowledge and engineering of agricultural and rural economics with the ability to design social system on food/agriculture/rural community and can contribute to the creation of a sustainable and prosperous community.
Skills to be developed
- Ability to understand academic theories sophisticatedly and interdisciplinary which are essential to interpret the modality of systems and policies about food, agriculture and rural communities.
- Ability to contribute to the development of new food, agriculture and rural communities which makes a contribution to healthy and affluent lives of the people and sustainable society, having faced various issues of diverse food, agriculture and rural communities from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Future path
Civil-service employee (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and local public organization), Agricultural producer, Agriculture related organization, JA, Agriculture related industry, Food related industry, Banking organization, continue to graduate school (doctor’s course), etc.
Program Specialized Course
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Course name | Semester | Credits | ||
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Agricultural & Rural Economics | Semester | A | Credits | 1 |
Agricultural policy | Semester | A | Credits | 1 |
Farming Organization | Semester | A | Credits | 1 |
Agribusiness | Semester | D | Credits | 1 |
Rural Geography | Semester | A | Credits | 1 |
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Course name | Semester | Credits | ||
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Marketing | Semester | A | Credits | 1 |
Social Business | Semester | A | Credits | 1 |
Statistics | Semester | B | Credits | 1 |
Environmental Economics | Semester | D | Credits | 1 |
Food System | Semester | B | Credits | 1 |
International Agricultural Economics and Management | Semester | A | Credits | 1 |
Rural Finance | Semester | B | Credits | 1 |
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Course name | Semester | Credits | ||
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Advanced Seminar in Agricultural and Rural Economics | Semester | F | Credits | 4 |
Advanced Research for thesis in Agricultural and Rural Economics | Semester | F | Credits | 6 |
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Faculty Member
ProfessorSAITOH, Kiyoshi
- Education specialty and research field
- Agriculture Management
- Research interest
- Agribusiness, agricultural education and agricultural development in European and US countries
- SDGs
ProfessorSUGITA, Naoki
- Education specialty and research field
- Agriculture Management
- Research interest
- Agricultural Marketing
- SDGs
ProfessorNISHIYAMA, Mima
- Education specialty and research field
- Agriculture Management
- Research interest
- Regional resource management and local food system
- SDGs
ProfessorMATSUMURA, Keiko
- Education specialty and research field
- Agricultural Geography, Rural Geography
- Research interest
- Agricultural geography and agricultural regional system
- SDGs
Associate ProfessorKATOH, Koji
- Education specialty and research field
- Environmental Economics
- Research interest
- Environmental economics and evaluation of multifaceted functions of agriculture
- SDGs
Associate ProfessorJINDAI, Hideaki
- Education specialty and research field
- Agriculture Policy
- Research interest
- Research on agricultural market and production, process and distribution of agricultural products
- SDGs
Associate ProfessorFUKUDA, Ryuichi
- Education specialty and research field
- Agricultural Economics
- Research interest
- Agricultural Trade, Rural development, Rural Finance
- SDGs
Assistant ProfessorOGAWA, Masayuki
- Education specialty and research field
- Agricultural Economics
- Research interest
- Japan's Rice Problem
- SDGs
Assistant ProfessorBenjamin Schrager
- Education specialty and research field
- Agricultural economics, human geography
- Research interest
- My research examines environmental and social aspects of food systems
- SDGs