2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Southwest Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 1,382 people earned their degree in agricultural engineering, making the major the 341st most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 79 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in agricultural engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their agricultural engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree ae students.
Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in College Station, Texas, this large public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified doctorate’s ae students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, 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 93%.
Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University - College Station
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and it awarded 23 doctorate’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%.
Read more about Agricultural Engineering at OSU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s ae degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Arizona Agricultural Engineering 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
- *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.
