The faculty and students have considerable interaction at all stages of research. Support facilities for library research, quantitative analysis, and the Departmental data processing service are excellent. Eleven UCD graduate students have received doctoral dissertation awards and six have received honorable mention from the American Agricultural Economics Association, since the establishment of the Ph.D. program at Davis. Time to Complete the Ph.D. Degree Students entering the Ph.D. program with an M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis, or a comparable degree, can complete their Ph.D. within four years, by following a normal program. The time requirements may vary according to the previous experience and employment status of the student.
Most students finish in their fifth or their sixth year.