2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in California
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$47,178
Avg Salary
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in California” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Agriculture is the 157th most popular major in the country with 3,151 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , general agriculture graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $36,874 and had an average of $19,583 in loans still to pay off.
Across California, there were 139 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,178 and $18,327 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 105 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,904 and $19,503 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in California” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in general agriculture. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general agriculture.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in California
The colleges and universities below are the best for california bachelor’s degree agriculture students.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in California
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California State University - Chico. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in California list. Located in Chico, California, this fairly large public school awarded 48 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s agriculture students in 2021-2022.
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%.
Read full report on General Agriculture at California State University - Chico
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California State University - Stanislaus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in California list. Located in Turlock, California, this fairly large public school awarded 29 degrees to qualified bachelors’s agriculture students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Stan State General Agriculture Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in California list. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a large public school situated in San Luis Obispo, California. It awarded 28 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, 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 95%.
Read more about General Agriculture at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, California State University - Fresno landed the #4 spot on the list. Fresno State is a public institution located in Fresno, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Agriculture at California State University - Fresno
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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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