2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Agricultural Economics is the 300th most popular major in the country with 1,882 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 522 agricultural economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 22 agricultural economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,599 and $15,584 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural economics. That schools that top this list have a program in agricultural economics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree ag economics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics in the Great Lakes Region

1

Lake Land College
Mattoon, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lake Land College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Lake Land College is a small public school situated in Mattoon, Illinois. It awarded 17 associates’s ag economics degrees in 2021-2022.

Read more about Agricultural Economics at Lake Land College

2

Joliet Junior College
Joliet, Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Joliet Junior College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Joliet, Illinois, this fairly large public school handed out 5 degrees to qualified associates’s ag economics students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Agricultural Economics at Joliet Junior College

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%.

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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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