2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations is the 230th most popular major in the country with 3,206 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 163 agribusiness/agricultural business operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 108 agribusiness/agricultural business operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agribusiness Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in agribusiness/agricultural business operations. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their agribusiness/agricultural business operations program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agribusiness Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agribusiness Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Delaware Valley University
Doylestown, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Delaware Valley University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agribusiness Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 22 degrees to qualified bachelors’s agribusiness students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations at Delaware Valley University

2

SUNY Canton
Canton, New York

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agribusiness Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Canton landed the #2 spot on the list. Canton, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s agribusiness degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full SUNY Canton Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations Report

3

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

#5 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agribusiness Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #3 spot on the list. Cornell is a private not-for-profit institution located in Ithaca, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations at Cornell

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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