2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 597 people earned their degree in agroecology & sustainable agriculture, making the major the 617th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 170 agroecology & sustainable agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 agroecology & sustainable agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agroecology & sustainable agriculture. That schools that top this list have a program in agroecology & sustainable agriculture in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree agroecology students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s agroecology degrees to 9 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Mississippi State University Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the Southeast Region. Louisiana State University is a large school located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that handed out 10 doctorate’s agroecology degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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 Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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