2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region
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Degrees Awarded
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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 the Great Lakes region, there were 356 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,084 and $13,766 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 213 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,415 and $23,858 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in general agriculture. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general agriculture program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree agriculture students.
Top 8 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in the Great Lakes Region
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Illinois University landed the #1 spot on the list. WIU is a medium-sized school located in Macomb, Illinois that handed out 64 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on General Agriculture at Western Illinois University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This large school is located in Normal, Illinois, and it awarded 122 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Agriculture at Illinois State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - River Falls. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Wisconsin - River Falls is a public institution located in River Falls, Wisconsin. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Agriculture at UW - River Falls
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #4 spot on the list. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a fairly large school located in Carbondale, Illinois that handed out 15 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Agriculture at Southern Illinois University Carbondale
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region list. West Lafayette, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s agriculture degrees to 5 students 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about General Agriculture at Purdue
With a ranking of #6, Andrews University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This small school is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Andrews General Agriculture Report
With a ranking of #7, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s agriculture students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Agriculture at UIUC
Eureka College ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Eureka, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s agriculture students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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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