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2022 Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
102 Degrees Awarded
$17,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 251 people earned their degree in agricultural and food products processing, making the major the 842nd most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 102 agricultural and food products processing graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural and food products processing. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agricultural and food products processing programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agricultural and food products processing program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree agricultural processing students with aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural & Food Products Processing (With Aid)

#1

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Kansas State University is located in Manhattan, Kansas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 49 bachelors’s agricultural processing degrees to qualified students.

K -State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural & Food Products Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Kansas State University is $18,285 for bachelor’s degree agricultural processing students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Agricultural & Food Products Processing at Kansas State University

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in College Station, Texas, this large public school awarded 22 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s agricultural processing students in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M College Station also took the #2 spot in our “Best Agricultural & Food Products Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M University - College Station is $19,057 for Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Processing students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Texas A&M University - College Station Agricultural & Food Products Processing Report

#3

Angelo State University

San Angelo, Texas
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Angelo State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. Located in San Angelo, Texas, this fairly large public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s agricultural processing students in 2019-2020.

Angelo State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Agricultural & Food Products Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $13,819 for bachelor’s degree agricultural processing students with aid per year to attend Angelo State.

Read full report on Agricultural & Food Products Processing at Angelo State

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, this large public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s agricultural processing students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNL, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Agricultural & Food Products Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $17,208 for Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Processing students with aid per year to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Nebraska - Lincoln Agricultural & Food Products Processing Report

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #5 spot on the list. Ohio State is a large public school situated in Columbus, Ohio. It awarded 14 bachelors’s agricultural processing degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree agricultural processing students with aid list, Ohio State has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Agricultural & Food Products Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Ohio State is $17,616 for Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Processing students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 4.4% 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 94%.

Read full report on Agricultural & Food Products Processing at Ohio State

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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

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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