2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in Indiana (With Aid)

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General Agriculture is the 148th most popular major in the country with 3,332 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general agriculture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,257 and had an average of $20,441 in loans still to pay off.

Across Indiana, there were 124 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,300 and $8,294 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,620 and $24,786 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general 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 general 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 for a Bachelor’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in Indiana (With Aid)

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$13,986 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in West Lafayette, Indiana, this large public school handed out 16 degrees to qualified bachelors’s agriculture students in 2019-2020.

Purdue did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list. The yearly cost to attend Purdue University - Main Campus is $13,986 for Indiana Bachelor’s Degree Agriculture students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Purdue General Agriculture Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General 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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