Agricultural Economics & Business at Sam Houston State University

If you are interested in studying agricultural economics & business, you may want to check out the program at Sam Houston State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

SHSU is located in Huntsville, Texas and has a total student population of 21,912.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Agricultural Economics & Business section at the bottom of this page.

SHSU Agricultural Economics & Business Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Business

SHSU Agricultural Economics & Business Rankings

The agricultural business major at SHSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Agricultural Economics & Business. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Agricultural Business Student Demographics at SHSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the agricultural business majors at Sam Houston State University.

SHSU Agricultural Economics & Business Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 52% of agricultural business bachelor's degrees went to men and 48% went to women. The typical agricultural business bachelor's degree program is made up of only 41% women. So female students are more repesented at SHSU since its program graduates 7% more women than average.

About 84% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in agricultural business at SHSU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Sam Houston State University with a bachelor's in agricultural business.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	37
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Agricultural Economics & Business

If you plan to be a agricultural business major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Sam Houston State University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations	41

Related Majors

• Agricultural Public Services
• Agricultural Production
• Plant Sciences
• Agricultural Mechanization
• General Agriculture

Careers That Agricultural Business Grads May Go Into

A degree in agricultural business can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for Sam Houston State University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	117,010	$59,580
Computer User Support Specialists	60,380	$52,250
Agricultural Products Graders and Sorters	5,540	$24,440
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Worker Supervisors	1,280	$52,170
Agricultural Sciences Professors	1,010	$93,580

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Bigguill under License

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