Graduate Programs

Our graduate program in agricultural and resource economics produces outstanding researchers in development economics, environmental and energy economics, international trade, and agricultural and resource policy.

Students enrolling in our doctoral program complete a rigorous course of study, including microeconomic theory (offered by the Department of Economics), econometrics, and field courses offered by ARE, the Department of Economics, and the Haas School of Business. A number of our graduate students also take doctoral-level courses in the Department of Statistics.

Our recent graduates have gone on to teaching and research positions at many of the world's top universities, including Brown, California Institute of Technology, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, London School of Economics, MIT, Michigan, Ohio State, Oxford, Purdue, Stanford, Texas A&M, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, and many others.

Graduate and Staff Advising 

Carmen Karahalios
Graduate Student Advisor

On-site: Mon & Thurs | Remote: Tues & Wed (off Fri)
204 Giannini Hall
510 642-3347
carmenk@berkeley.edu

Professor Michael L Anderson
Head Faculty Graduate Advisor

mlanderson@berkeley.edu