2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production in the Great Lakes Region
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Ranked Colleges
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In 2021-2022, 3,124 people earned their degree in agricultural production, making the major the 190th most popular in the United States. In , agricultural production graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $31,367 and had an average of $17,294 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 634 agricultural production graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,437 and $10,400 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 agricultural production graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Production Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in agricultural production. That schools that top this list have a program in agricultural production in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Production Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree agricultural production students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production in the Great Lakes Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Production Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Madison, Wisconsin, and it awarded 8 masters’s agricultural production degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.
Full UW - Madison Agricultural Production Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Production Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified masters’s agricultural production students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
Read more about Agricultural Production at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Production Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. West Lafayette, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s agricultural production degrees to 29 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
Read full report on Agricultural Production at Purdue
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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%.
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- *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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