2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture is the 639th most popular major in the country with 571 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 152 agroecology and sustainable agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 agroecology and sustainable agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agroecology and sustainable agriculture. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agroecology and sustainable agriculture 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 agroecology and sustainable agriculture 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree agroecology students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$23,950 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. Mississippi State University is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 14 masters’s agroecology degrees to qualified students.

Mississippi State also made our “Best Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Mississippi State are $23,950.

Read full report on Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture at Mississippi State University

#2

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

$29,970 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College landed the #2 spot on the list. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a large school located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that handed out 6 masters’s agroecology degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Louisiana State University, the school also landed the #0 spot in our “Best Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Louisiana State University are $29,970, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture at Louisiana State University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture (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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