With our lectures, seminars and suggestions for your BSc or MSc thesis you will receive a first class education to enter a career in the agricultural or food industry.

We will introduce you to marketing and management strategies and methods and pinpoint the co-operative interrelation of value chains thus providing you with the instruments to understand how real life business and society works. You will be able to critically analyse and deal with current problems concerning key issues in the fields food economics by applying economic principles and techniques of economic analysis we have introduced to you.

Our close connection to the agricultural and food industry will give you the opportunity to make contact with a variety of companies in these fields either to carry out co-operational projects or to make numerous contacts with potential employers.

Our training involves practitioners of the agricultural and food industry which not only demonstrates an intensive synergy of theory and practice but also guarantees an up-to-date research standard in close interaction with every day business and market development.

With individual advice, support and pronounced teamwork you will be well equipped to enter a career at CEO level in the food industry.

Furthermore, this close connection to the food and agribusiness world provides our students the opportunity to extend their theoretical knowledge with practical skills.

The Institute of Rural Cooperation , which is affiliated to this department, is fully integrated into this transfer of knowledge.