2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
56
Degrees Awarded
$60,187
Avg Salary
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In 2021-2022, 1,382 people earned their degree in agricultural engineering, making the major the 204th most popular in the United States. In , agricultural engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $57,357 and had an average of $22,202 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 79 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,187 and $18,938 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 56 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in agricultural engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree ae students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this large public school awarded 19 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s ae students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in College Station, Texas, and it awarded 37 bachelors’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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%.
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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%.
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- *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.
