Food Industry Management ,BS
Food, Food Management, retail, sales
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The BS program in food industry management is unique and has been developed in close coordination with partners in the food industry to help ensure graduates have the knowledge and skills needed to become immediate leaders in the industry. Students combine core courses in business disciplines (finance, marketing, management, accounting, supply chain management and economics) with courses specific to the food industry.
Students select from courses in the following areas: environmental management and sustainability, food industry sales and management, food marketing strategy, food retailing, food supply networks, futures and options markets, innovation and food product development, insurance, pricing and promotion strategy in food markets, retail information analysis and risk management.
Each of the courses addresses a different issue in which the fundamental concepts, theoretical approaches, analytical methods and industry practices are unique to the food industry.
- College/school:
W. P. Carey School of Business
- Second language requirement: No
- STEM-OPT extension eligible: No
- First required math course: MAT 210 - Brief Calculus
- Math
intensity: Moderate
General university admission requirements:
All students are required to meet general
university admission requirements.
First-year
| Transfer
| International
| Readmission
Additional requirements:
Freshman and transfer students must submit either an SAT Reasoning test score or an ACT test score by the end of the first semester in the program (we do not require the writing portion of these tests). There is no minimum score requirement.
Freshman admission requirements for this program are the same as the university's freshman admission requirements.
Readmission requirements: must meet freshman admission requirements by way of high school GPA, test score or class rank and must have a 3.00 transfer GPA (if applicable) and a 3.00 cumulative ASU GPA.
Transfer admission requirements:
Transfer applicants must have a 3.00 GPA for all transfer work and meet university transfer admission requirements. Transfer students should select an additional major, which must be outside W. P. Carey School of Business, when applying for admission.
Students with fewer than 45 transfer hours who are not admissible to a W. P. Carey School of Business major and who did not select a second major or are not admissible to their second major choice will be placed in the exploratory social and behavioral sciences program in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts.
Students with more than 45 transfer hours who are not admissible to the College of Letters and Sciences will be contacted to select an appropriate major.
ASU is committed to helping students thrive by offering tools that allow personalization of the transfer path to ASU. Students may use MyPath2ASU® to outline a list of recommended courses to take prior to transfer.
ASU has transfer partnerships in Arizona and across the country to create a simplified transfer experience for students. These pathway programs include exclusive benefits, tools and resources, and they help students save time and money in their college journey.
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The W. P. Carey degree program in food industry management prepares students for business careers in the food industry, which is defined as the group of firms and organizations involved with manufacturing, marketing and distributing food beyond the farm to retail stores, restaurants and institutions such as schools and hospitals.
Potential careers for graduates include:
- brand manager for a food manufacturing firm
- commodities trader for an investment bank or hedge fund
- district manager for a food retailer
- loan officer for a bank with a food industry portfolio
Morrison School of Agribusiness
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