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2022 Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
70 Degrees Awarded
$9,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 8,504 people earned their degree in agricultural economics and business, making the major the 94th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, agricultural economics and business graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $40,058 and had an average of $17,639 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,447 agricultural economics and business graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,582 and $18,121 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 70 agricultural economics and business graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great agricultural economics and business programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the agricultural economics and business program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree agricultural business students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics & Business (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. TSTC is a fairly large public school situated in Waco, Texas. It awarded 22 associates’s agricultural business degrees in 2019-2020.

TSTC also made our “Best Agricultural Economics & Business Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $9,067 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Agricultural Business students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Texas State Technical College.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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