2025 Best Agricultural Economics & Business Master's Degree Schools
Agricultural Economics & Business isn't the most popular master's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #177 in popularity out of 343 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 9 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for agricultural economics & business students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 309 master's degrees in agricultural economics & business during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Agricultural Economics & Business School for Your Master's Degree
The agricultural business master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality agricultural business program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to agricultural economics & business students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other agricultural economics & business students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How much debt agricultural economics & business students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized agricultural economics & business related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for agricultural economics & business students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Agricultural Economics & Business Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Agricultural Economics & Business Master's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
