2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agronomy & Crop Science in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Agronomy & Crop Science is the 405th most popular major in the country with 1,127 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 62 agronomy & crop science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 agronomy & crop science graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,902 and $128,547 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in agronomy & crop science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree agronomy and crop science students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agronomy & Crop Science in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Ithaca, New York, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s agronomy and crop science degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 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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