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2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Schools for a Bachelor's Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Agricultural Engineering is the 341st most popular major in the country with 1,382 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 509 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 412 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,415 and $23,858 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in agricultural engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree ae students.

Top 6 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Ohio State University - Main Campus is a large school located in Columbus, Ohio that handed out 96 bachelors’s ae degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at Ohio State University - Main Campus

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region list. UIUC is a large public school situated in Champaign, Illinois. It awarded 118 bachelors’s ae degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

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

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Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, Indiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region. Purdue University - Main Campus is a large public school situated in West Lafayette, Indiana. It awarded 85 bachelors’s ae degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%.

Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at Purdue

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Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - River Falls landed the #4 spot on the list. UW - River Falls is a medium-sized school located in River Falls, Wisconsin that handed out 5 bachelors’s ae degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.

Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at UW - River Falls

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Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #5 spot on the list. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s ae degrees to 49 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Agricultural Engineering at Michigan State

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University of Wisconsin - Madison did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #6. University of Wisconsin - Madison is located in Madison, Wisconsin and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 59 bachelors’s ae degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, 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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