2022 Best Value Agricultural Production Ops Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region 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 was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Agricultural Production Ops Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Agricultural Production Operations is the 550th most popular major in the country with 900 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 246 agricultural production operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 74 agricultural production operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Agricultural Production Ops Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural production operations. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agricultural production operations programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the agricultural production operations program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Agricultural Production Ops Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agricultural Production Ops Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production Operations in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Lake Land College

Mattoon, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$4,468 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lake Land College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Production Ops Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Mattoon, Illinois, this small public school handed out 19 degrees to qualified associates’s agricultural production ops students in 2019-2020.

Lake Land College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural Production Operations Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $4,468 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Agricultural Production Ops students with aid per year to attend Lake Land College.

Read more about Agricultural Production Operations at Lake Land College

#2

Rend Lake College

Ina, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$5,636 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Production Ops Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Rend Lake College landed the #2 spot on the list. Rend Lake College is a small school located in Ina, Illinois that handed out 4 associates’s agricultural production ops degrees in 2019-2020.

Rend Lake College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Agricultural Production Operations Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Rend Lake College is $5,636 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Agricultural Production Ops students with aid.

Full Rend Lake College Agricultural Production Operations Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production Operations (With Aid)

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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