2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agronomy & Crop Science in California (With Aid)

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Agronomy and Crop Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Agronomy & Crop Science is the 393rd most popular major in the country with 1,192 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 65 agronomy and crop science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 65 agronomy and crop science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agronomy and crop science 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 agronomy and crop science 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 Agronomy and Crop Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agronomy and Crop Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agronomy & Crop Science in California (With Aid)

#1

California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo, California

#1 in overall quality

$21,595 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Agronomy and Crop Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo landed the #1 spot on the list. San Luis Obispo, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s agronomy and crop science degrees to 65 students in 2019-2020.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agronomy & Crop Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list. The estimated yearly cost for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is $21,595 for California Bachelor’s Degree Agronomy and Crop Science students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Agronomy & Crop Science Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agronomy & Crop Science in the Far Western US Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agronomy & Crop Science (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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