Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics & Resource Management

Course Structure

       YEAR ONE

        First semester  

  • CMJ 1100 – Communication Skills, 3 Credit Hours              
  • ZOO 1100 – HIV & AIDS and Lifestyle Diseases, 3 Credit Hours      
  • ECO 1103 – Introduction to Microeconomics, 3 Credit Hours         
  • ECO 1105 – Economic Statistics I, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 1103 – Soil science, 3 Credit Hours  
  • BCM 1103 – Foundations of Accounting I, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 1104 – History and Development of Kenyan Agriculture, 3 Credit Hours          

        Total                     21          

        Second Semester 

  • COM 1200 – Computer & Information Literacy, 3 Credit Hours
  • ECO 1203 – Introduction to Macroeconomics, 3 Credit Hours
  • ECO 1204 – Mathematics for Economics I, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 1203 – Principles of Crop Production, 3 Credit Hours
  • BCM 1205 – Foundations of Accounting II, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 1204 – Agricultural marketing I, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 1205 – Introduction to Agricultural Economics            3

        Total                     21

       YEAR TWO

        First semester  

  • ENS 2100 – Environmental Skills, 3 Credit Hours 
  • REL 2100 – Philosophy and Critical Thinking, 3 Credit Hours           
  • ECO 2103 – Intermediate Microeconomics, 3 Credit Hours             
  • ECO 2105 – Economics Statistics II, 3 Credit Hours             
  • ECO 2204 – Mathematics for Economics II, 3 Credit Hours              
  • ARE 2106 – Rural sociology, 3 Credit Hours           
  • ARE 2107 – Managerial accounting, 3 Credit Hours            

         Total                     21          

        Second Semester

  • ECO 2203 – Intermediate Macroeconomics, 3 Credit Hours
  • AGB 3105 – Financial Management in Agribusiness, 3 Credit Hours
  • ECO 2205 – Economics of Money and Banking, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 2204 – Farm power and machinery, 3 Credit Hours
  • ECO 2107 – History of Economic Thought, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 2206 – Crop protection, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 2207 – Animal production, 3 Credit Hours

        Total                     21

       YEAR THREE

        First semester  

  • ARE 3103 – Rural development and agriculture, 3 Credit Hours    
  • ARE 3104 – Agricultural market and price analysis, 3 Credit Hours              
  • ARE 3105 – Quantitative methods, 3 Credit Hours              
  • ARE 3106 – Agricultural marketing II         , 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 3107 – Cooperative development and management, 3 Credit Hours 
  • ARE 3108 – Agricultural production economics, 3 Credit Hours     
  • ECO 3105 – Development Economics, 3 Credit Hours                                                       

        Total                     21          

        Second Semester

  • BCM 3200 – Entrepreneurship skills, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 3203 – Farm business management, 3 Credit Hours
  • ECO 3207 – Research Methodology          3
  • AGB 4208 – Agricultural Finance and Risk Management, 3 Credit Hours
  • ECO 4206 – Environmental Economics, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 3207 – Natural resource management, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 3208 – Food economics and policy, 3 Credit Hours
  • *ARE 3210 – Field attachment, 6 Credit Hours

        Total                     27

       YEAR FOUR

        First semester  

  • ECO 4103 – Econometrics I, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 4104 – International Agricultural Trade, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 4105 – Agricultural Project Management, 3 Credit Hours       
  • ARE 4106 – Agri – Supply chain Management, 3 Credit Hours         
  • ARE 4107 – Agricultural extension, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 4108 – Farming Systems, 3 Credit Hours        
  • ECO  4106 – Data analysis and computer applications in economics, 3 Credit Hours            

        Total                     21          

        Second Semester

  • ECO 4203 – Econometrics II, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 4204 – Industrial organization and public policy, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 4205 – Survey, soil and water conservation, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 4206 – Agricultural policy analysis and law, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 4207 – Current issues in agriculture, economics and resource management, 3 Credit Hours
  • ARE 4208 – Research project and seminar II, 3 Credit Hours
  • BCM 3206 – Taxation theory and practice, 3 Credit Hours

        Total                     21

Fee Structure and Funding

www.mmarau.ac.ke/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Fees-Structure-Government-Sponsored-Students.pdf – Government Sponsored

 

Revised_fee_structure_October_2021.pdf (mmarau.ac.ke) – Privately Sponsored

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