该系同时提供硕士和博士学位。拥有美国农业和资源经济学领域最杰出的研究生课程之一的学位。这两个程序都致力于将先进的微观经济学理论和计量经济学应用于环境和资源经济学，农业经济学和发展经济学中的问题。这些领域的顶尖研究人员教授课程，他们将严格的奖学金与丰富的政策经验相结合。该系的教师包括环境和资源经济学，农业经济学和发展经济学方面的国际知名学者。为了表彰他们的研究，该系的教师获得了国际奖项，例如德文的亚历山大·冯·洪堡奖，美国经济协会的约翰·贝茨·克拉克奖章，农业和农业奖。应用经济学协会的研究发现质量和持久质量
The Department offers both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from one of the nation's premier graduate programs in agricultural and resource economics. Both programs focus on the application of advanced microeconomic theory and econometrics to issues in environmental and resource economics, agricultural economics, and development economics. Courses are taught by leading researchers in those fields, who combine rigorous scholarship with extensive policy experience.<br><br>The Department's faculty includes internationally prominent scholars in environmental and resource economics, agricultural economics, and development economics. In recognition of their research, Department faculty members have received such international awards as Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Prize, the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark Medal, and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association's Quality of Research Discovery and Publication of Enduring Quality Awards, among others. Several have been elected fellows of such professional associations as the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (formerly the American Agricultural Economics Association), the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, the Econometric Society, and the American Statistical Association. Department faculty members have served as presidents of the American Agricultural Economics Association and Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and as editors and associate editors of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and Environment and Development Economics, among others. One faculty member is currently a research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.