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In the US, agricultural/resource/applied economics programs are more likely to fund your master's degree. The question is whether your interest lies in those fields. If not, some of these programs also have decent placements in general econ programs, for example, the master's at Montana State University whose graduates have been placed mostly in top 20-40 departments like UCSB, Washington, CU Boulder, Pittsburgh, etc. but at times also in top 20 programs like NYU, Michigan, Harvard Public Policy, etc.

Your GRE quant score is fine. If anything, I would worry about your grades (lots of C's and B's).

Hello all, what is the general perception/impression of the economics department at the University of Georgia? What is it known for? How is their placement compared to other similar departments?

Now, please don't get me wrong, this is all out of curiosity. I get that agricultural economics had a different start point, in that it initially developed after a bunch of agronomists/agricultural scientists started using economic theories in their work. And, now, these departments in land-grant universities get huge government funding, so there are nice funding opportunities for students. But it seems that a lot of agricultural economics departments now deal more with research topics marginally related to agriculture, like environment, natural resources, and international development. I am curious that if I am interested in, let's say, international agricultural development and the related topics (smallholder farmer issues, technology transfer and adoption, agricultural cooperatives, gender in agriculture, etc.), why would it be better to do a PhD in an agricultural economics department, compared to an economics department or even a nice public policy department like at HKS? I think the same could be said to a certain extent for traditional agricultural topics (agricultural and commodity price analysis and forecasting, agricultural markets, agribusiness and farm management, etc.). Am I missing something?