2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agronomy & Crop Science in the Great Lakes Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 1,127 people earned their degree in agronomy & crop science, making the major the 405th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 170 agronomy & crop science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 agronomy & crop science graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agronomy & crop science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their agronomy & crop science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree agronomy and crop science students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agronomy & Crop Science in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a large school located in Champaign, Illinois that handed out 18 masters’s agronomy and crop science degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Agronomy & Crop Science at UIUC
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #2 spot on the list. UW - Madison is located in Madison, Wisconsin and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 masters’s agronomy and crop science degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Agronomy & Crop Science at University of Wisconsin - Madison
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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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