2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Business & Management in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Business Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Agricultural Business & Management is the 910th most popular major in the country with 136 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Plains States region, there were 82 agricultural business & management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 82 agricultural business & management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Business Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural business & management. That schools that top this list have a program in agricultural business & management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Business Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Business Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Business & Management in the Plains States Region

1

University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Missouri. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Business Major in the Plains States Region list. UCM is a fairly large public school situated in Warrensburg, Missouri. It awarded 24 bachelors’s agricultural business degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Agricultural Business & Management at UCM

2

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#4 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Business Major in the Plains States Region. UMN Twin Cities is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 58 bachelors’s agricultural business degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UMN Twin Cities Agricultural Business & Management Report

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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