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2022 Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

2 Ranked Colleges
42 Degrees Awarded
$13,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agricultural Mechanization is the 580th most popular major in the country with 490 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 108 agricultural mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 42 agricultural mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agricultural mechanization. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agricultural mechanization programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agricultural mechanization 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 Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s ag mech degrees to qualified students.

Purdue also took the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Mechanization Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Purdue is $13,986 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Ag Mech students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Agricultural Mechanization at Purdue

#2

University of Wisconsin - River Falls

River Falls, Wisconsin
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - River Falls. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. River Falls, Wisconsin is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s ag mech degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

UW - River Falls also made our “Best Agricultural Mechanization Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $13,748 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree ag mech students with aid per year to attend UW - River Falls.

The low student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%.

Read more about Agricultural Mechanization at UW - River Falls

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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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