2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in Maryland
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Agriculture & Agriculture Operations is the 21st most popular major in the country with 50,343 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , agriculture & agriculture operations graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $37,576 and had an average of $26,262 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maryland, there were 349 agriculture & agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,089 and $19,838 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 agriculture & agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,978 and $45,714 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Maryland” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in agriculture & agriculture operations. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their agriculture & agriculture operations program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Maryland
The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland master’s degree agriculture & agriculture operations students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in Maryland
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland Eastern Shore landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Maryland Eastern Shore is a small school located in Princess Anne, Maryland that handed out 5 masters’s agriculture & agriculture operations degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Maryland Eastern Shore Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Maryland list. Located in College Park, Maryland, this large public school awarded 8 degrees to qualified masters’s agriculture & agriculture operations students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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%.
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- *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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