Graduate Program - What is ACE

The Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics (ACE) has roots that reach back over 75 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has earned a world-wide reputation for its academic excellence. Its faculty have:

• Made significant contributions to the literature
• Earned numerous awards
• Served in leadership positions in professional associations

Its graduates have risen to positions of respect both here and around the world in:

• Academia
• The corporate world
• Government

The department is dedicated to a bright future that builds on this strong past. ACE offers programs of great depth and diversity.

• From research in the environmental aspects of farm production to the development of high-technology markets
• From the markets for inputs to the markets for foods
• From creating basic decision aids for farmers, business managers, and communities to advanced economic modeling with supercomputers

Graduate students make vital contributions to these programs.

The Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois has

• An excellent faculty
• Access to some of the best library and computer facilities in the world
• Exceptionally broad teaching, research and cultural programs
• An extraordinary record of attracting external funding for research
• Collaboration with researchers in a wide range of disciplines
• A commitment to graduate education