Overview

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. This Agricultural and Rural Economics course is offered at Utsunomiya University.

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.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Agricultural & Rural Economics
Agricultural Policy
Farming Organization
History of Agriculture and Rural Society
Rural Sociology
Agribusiness
Rural Geography

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-04-08 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-02-08 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Utsunomiya, Japan

Disciplines

Economics Agriculture View 13 other Masters in Agriculture in Japan

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Application Form
Research Plan
Certificate of (Expected) Graduation
Transcripts
Documents related to foreign language proficiency testing
Resident’s card

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Tuition Fee

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International

535800 JPY/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 535800 JPY per year during 24 months.

Funding

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