2022 Best Value Colleges for Agriculture in Minnesota (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Agriculture Schools in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,332 people earned their degree in agriculture, making the major the 188th most popular in the United States.

Across Minnesota, there were 2 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agriculture programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the 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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Best Value Agriculture Schools in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for minnesota agriculture students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Agriculture in Minnesota (With Aid)

#1

Ridgewater College

Willmar, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$11,764 Average Net Price

$39,686 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ridgewater College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agriculture Schools in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid list. Ridgewater College is a small school located in Willmar, Minnesota that handed out 1 ’s agriculture degrees in 2019-2020.

Ridgewater College also made our “Best Agriculture Schools in Minnesota” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $11,764 for minnesota agriculture students with aid per year to attend Ridgewater College.

Read full report on Agriculture at Ridgewater College

• Best Value Colleges for Agriculture in the Plains States Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Colleges for 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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