2022 Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Agricultural Mechanization is the 235th most popular major in the country with 1,550 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, ag mechanization graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $44,100 and had an average of $16,882 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 74 ag mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,200 and $20,817 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 12 ag mechanization 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 ag mechanization 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 ag mechanization program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization (Income $48-$75k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Navarro College

Corsicana, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$15,251 Average Net Price

$44,356 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Navarro College landed the #1 spot on the list. Corsicana, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s ag mech degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Navarro College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Mechanization Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Navarro College is $15,251 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Ag Mech students whose families make $48-$75k.

Full Navarro College Agricultural Mechanization Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization (Income $48-$75k)

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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