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This study used the content analytical approach to review students’research theses that were submitted to the Department
of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Federal University of Technology, Akure. The study was directed at identifying
the research tendencies in the department with respect to enterprises studied, research focus, method of data collection
and analytical tools used. The study revealed that 34.51% of the students’ research works were on crop enterprises
while 11.94% were on livestock. The predominant crop enterprises studied were cocoa, cassava, yam and rice while
poultry was the predominant livestock enterprise studied. About 29.68% of the research efforts were focussed production,
29.35% on adoption and 21.61% on marketing. Questionnaire administration was used by 84.52% of the student
researchers as the main method of data collection while personal interview was used by 11.61% of them. Farm
experiments served as the source of data for only 0.97% of the student researchers. Multiple analytical tools were used
to achieve the research objectives with those who used two and three tools accounting for 49.4% and 32.3%; respectively.
Descriptive statistics; especially frequency distribution was the first and main tool of analysis used by 88.06% of the
student researchers. About 8.06% of them used regression analysis as the first and main tool of analysis