The Academic Accelerator Program (AAP) is a balanced first-year program for international students with good English-language skills. It supplements immersive classes taught in English with just the right amount of support. As a student in the Academic Accelerator, one will receive:

The right amount of support for academic and English-speaking needs
A full year’s worth of college credits
Access to courses exclusively for international students
English-language help with necessary words for classes
A mix of classes with international and U.S. students

Agricultural business accounts for over half of the global economy and employs approximately one quarter of Americans. The Bachelor of Science degree program in Agricultural Business provides students with a comprehensive business background combined with a working knowledge of production agriculture. In this program, students focus on management, marketing, finance, and economics while addressing questions and concerns involving the economics and sociology of agriculture, natural resources, and rural communities. Students may opt for one of the following areas of concentration:

Agribusiness Finance
Food Industry Management
International Business
Rural Development

These areas of concentration are of interest for students who plan to work in these subfields of agricultural business upon graduation.

Students with Agribusiness Finance concentration will learn how food and agricultural products move from farm to consumer, including all of the production, processing, transportation, and marketing functions of business. This program provides students with a comprehensive business background combined with a working knowledge of the production, marketing, and policy aspects of the agricultural and food industry in the U.S.

The potential career paths for graduates holding Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business with Agribusiness Finance concentration are in the fields of commodity and wholesale marketing, banking and investment, management, consulting, production agriculture, general wholesale and retail, state or federal government, and graduate or professional school.