Agricultural economy and trade

Аграрна икономика и търговия

Description

The education in the specialty "Agricultural Economics and Trade" combines both industry-specific and functional training. The industry-specific training provides education for economists specializing in enterprises and structures within the agricultural business sector, including private agricultural farms, cooperatives, trading companies with various forms of ownership (private, public, and mixed). The functional training builds specialized knowledge for functions related to trade, procurement, sales, marketing, commercial representation, and intermediation of agricultural products and resources for their production.

The main goal of education in the specialty "Agricultural Economics and Trade" is to prepare economists specialized in the agricultural business and the trade of its products, marketing, management, and financing.

The specialty provides professional skills and competencies for the economist specialist to:
1. Manage small, medium, and large enterprises in the agricultural business.
2. Represent and mediate in the trade of agricultural and food products.
3. Lead logistics and marketing departments in enterprises and organizations.
4. Develop business projects for starting one's own business and economic evaluation of investment projects.
5. Conduct economic and market analyses.
6. Have knowledge of financial, accounting, and legal aspects of the agricultural business.

Realization

The acquired knowledge and skills enable graduates with a bachelor's degree in economics to find opportunities in various areas, such as:
1. The production sector, where they can work as managers and economists in agricultural and trading companies, as well as agricultural cooperatives.
2. The field of processing and trade of agricultural products.
3. As experts in agricultural business and brokers for agricultural and food products.
4. Serving enterprises involved in agricultural production.
5. As experts in financing and crediting the agricultural business.
6. As experts in agricultural economics and trade within non-governmental, sectoral, and regional organizations, unions, and others.

General information

Field of Study

Agricultural economy and trade

Abbreviation

AET

Field of higher education

3 Social, economic and legal sciences

Professional Direction

3.8 Economics

Qualifiaction

Economist

Degree

Bachelor's degree

Previous education:

Secondary education

Forms of education

Full-time / Part-time

Period of education

Full-time - 8 Semesters / Part-time - 8 Semesters

Educational unit

Faculty of Economics
Bale formation

В Тракийския университет се кандидатства с оценки от дипломата за средно образование, или с оценки от присъствени приемни изпити 

Admission to the specialty „Аграрна икономика и търговия“ is carried out after ranking by score. 

Балът се образува от основна балообразуваща оценка, умножена по 3, плюс две допълнителни балообразуващи оценки.

1. Basic Score

Оценката от състезателен приемен изпит/тест или от Държавен зрелостен изпит (ДЗИ). Ако кандидат-студентът се е явявал на някой от изпитите неколкократно или на повече от един балообразуващ изпит, в бала участва най-високата от всички оценки.

Най-високата от следните оценки ×3:

  • DZI Geography

  • DZI Bulgarian language and literature

  • Test Geography

  • Test Mathematics

  • Exam General language culture

    or ×3,5:

  • DZI Mathematics
  • Общ конкурсен изпит по математика

2. First supplementary assessment

  • Mathematics

3. Second additional score

  • Geography

Additional scoring are the grades in the diploma from the State Baccalaureate Examination (BSE) or from the compulsory preparation in the subject. If the diploma does not contain the required grades, the grades from the First Secondary School Certificate are used.

Note 1: If the main qualifying mark is from a competitive examination and there are two marks in a qualifying subject entered in the secondary education diploma, one of which is from a State Baccalaureate Examination (SBE) from 2008 onwards and the other from the Compulsory Preparation section, the additional qualifying mark shall be the mark from the state matriculation exam.

Note 2: In the formation of the competition score of prospective students whose secondary education diploma was issued before the introduction of the state matriculation examinations and who do not have a mark from the state matriculation examination in Bulgarian language and literature, the mark from the matriculation examination in Bulgarian language and literature or from the matriculation examination in general education oriented to the verification of competences in Bulgarian language and literature shall be taken as the score-forming mark.

Entrance Exams

To apply, you can take one of the following exams.

Preliminary examinations:

General language culture - exam - 21 март и 4 април 2026 г. (in-person)

Geography - test -  21 март и 4 април 2026 г. (in-person)

Mathematics - test -  21 март и 4 април 2026 г. (in-person)

Regular examinations:

General language culture - exam - 24 юни 2026 г. (in-person)

Geography - test - 25 юни 2026 г. (in-person)

Mathematics - test - 25 юни 2026 г. (in-person)

Общ конкурсен изпит по математика - 26 юни 2026 г. (in - person)