2022 Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agricultural Economics & Business is the 94th most popular major in the country with 8,504 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Illinois, there were 433 agricultural economics and business graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,350 and $16,246 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 254 agricultural economics and business graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agricultural economics and business. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agricultural economics and business programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agricultural economics and business program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics & Business in Illinois (With Aid)

#1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$15,880 Average Net Price

$53,984 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school handed out 204 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s agricultural business students in 2019-2020.

UIUC also made our “Best Agricultural Economics & Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for UIUC is $15,880 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Business students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Read more about Agricultural Economics & Business at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#2

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Carbondale, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$16,945 Average Net Price

$43,575 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Carbondale, Illinois, and it awarded 37 bachelors’s agricultural business degrees in 2019-2020.

SIUC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Agricultural Economics & Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale is $16,945 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Business students with aid.

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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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