Behind every farm and ranch is a business predicated on the whims of nature and caprices of the market. It's these forces faculty and students in UW's Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics seek to understand through rigorous practical scholarship of the region and the world.As part of a proud land-grant institution, the graduate program in agricultural and applied economics (AgEcon, we like to call it), offers a student-centered, research-intensive experience with one-on-one faculty interaction and paradigm-busting research opportunities. Here in the heavily rural state of Wyoming, you can not only find your place in this broad expansive discipline, you can also contribute to it through your study of natural resource economics, applied agricultural production, experimental/behavioral economics, or water resource economics, among many other topics. Graduates of our program go on to careers in industry, government, Cooperative Extension, nonprofits and consultancies. Others pursue doctorates at universities all over the country.