2022 Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 51,300 people earned their degree in agriculture and agriculture operations, making the major the 23rd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, agriculture and agriculture operations graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $34,886 and had an average of $19,085 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 781 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,214 and $25,602 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 192 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in agriculture and agriculture operations. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agriculture and agriculture operations programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the agriculture and agriculture operations program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in Pennsylvania

#1

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$23,521 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Temple University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania. This large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees in 2019-2020.

Temple also made our “Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $23,521 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree agriculture & agriculture operations students per year to attend Temple University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations at Temple University

#2

Delaware Valley University

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$27,587 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Delaware Valley University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania list. Located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 132 degrees to qualified bachelors’s agriculture and agriculture operations students in 2019-2020.

DelVal did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. It costs about $27,587 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree agriculture & agriculture operations students per year to attend Delaware Valley University.

Full Delaware Valley University Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Report

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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

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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