2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture in the Plains States Region

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In 2020-2021, 3,370 people earned their degree in agriculture, making the major the 202nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 418 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in agriculture. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in agriculture.

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Most Well Attended Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s”.

Top 4 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture in the Plains States Region

1

University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

#14 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, this large public school awarded 19 diplomas to qualified masters’s agriculture students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Agriculture at UNL

2

Missouri State University - Springfield
Springfield, Missouri

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri State University - Springfield landed the #2 spot on the list. Missouri State is a large public school situated in Springfield, Missouri. It awarded 8 masters’s agriculture degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Agriculture at Missouri State

3

Lincoln University
Jefferson City, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lincoln University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s list. Jefferson City, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s agriculture degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Full Lincoln University Agriculture Report

3

Northwest Missouri State University
Maryville, Missouri

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwest Missouri State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Maryville, Missouri is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s agriculture degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Agriculture at Northwest

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture

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

• *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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