2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Agriculture is the 202nd most popular major in the country with 3,151 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 761 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in agriculture. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their agriculture program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree agriculture students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, and it awarded 9 doctorate’s agriculture degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, 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 88%.
Full UT Knoxville Agriculture Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #2 spot on the list. West Virginia University is a large school located in Morgantown, West Virginia that handed out 8 doctorate’s agriculture degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Agriculture at WVU
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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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