2025 Best Agricultural Engineering Schools in Illinois
1College in Illinois
142AE Degrees Awarded
$64,855Avg Early-Career Salary
Agricultural Engineering isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #204 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
There was only one school in Illinois to review for the 2025 Best Agricultural Engineering Schools in Illinois ranking.
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Best Schools for Agricultural Engineering in Illinois
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in agricultural engineering. Located in the small city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who receive their degree from the ae program earn around $62,032 in the first couple years of their career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).