2024 Best Agricultural Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
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Colleges in the Plains States Region
19
Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in
agricultural engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #130 out of 862 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for agricultural engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 19 doctor's degrees in agricultural engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Agricultural Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of agricultural engineering for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality ae program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on agricultural engineering students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other agricultural engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized agricultural engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for agricultural engineering students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Agricultural Engineering Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Agricultural Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.