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2022 Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
107 Degrees Awarded
$32,000 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value AE Schools for a Master's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agricultural Engineering is the 330th most popular major in the country with 1,564 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 584 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 107 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great agricultural engineering programs and cost less that 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 agricultural engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #1 spot on the list. UW - Madison is a public institution located in Madison, Wisconsin. The school has a large population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UW - Madison, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Agricultural Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Wisconsin - Madison are $25,523, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at University of Wisconsin - Madison

#2

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Purdue University - Main Campus is a public institution located in West Lafayette, Indiana. The school has a large population, and it awarded 73 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Purdue did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue University - Main Campus are $28,794.

Full Purdue Agricultural Engineering Report

#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. UIUC is a large school located in Champaign, Illinois that handed out 11 masters’s AE degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIUC, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Agricultural Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are $30,083.

Read more about Agricultural Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#4

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #4 spot on the list. This large school is located in East Lansing, Michigan, and it awarded 7 masters’s AE degrees in 2019-2020.

Michigan State also made our “Best Agricultural Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #4. Average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan State University are $37,056, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Agricultural Engineering at Michigan State

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k. This large school is located in Columbus, Ohio, and it awarded 6 masters’s AE degrees in 2019-2020.

Ohio State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Agricultural Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Ohio State University - Main Campus are $37,141.

Read more about Agricultural Engineering at Ohio State University - Main Campus

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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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