2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 79 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree ae students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Southwest Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - College Station is a large school located in College Station, Texas that handed out 12 masters’s ae degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University - College Station
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s 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. Located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this large public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s ae students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Oklahoma State University - Main Campus Agricultural Engineering Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Arizona is located in Tucson, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 masters’s ae degrees to qualified students.
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%.
Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at University of Arizona
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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.
