2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$35,300
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Ag Economics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 1,882 people earned their degree in agricultural economics, making the major the 300th most popular in the United States.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 265 agricultural economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 229 agricultural economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agricultural economics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in agricultural economics.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree ag economics students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #1 spot on the list. Cornell is located in Ithaca, New York and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 190 bachelors’s ag economics degrees to qualified students.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in College Park, Maryland, this large public school awarded 39 degrees to qualified bachelors’s ag economics students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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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- *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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