2024 Best Agricultural Economics Schools in Illinois
3Colleges in Illinois
276Ag Economics Degrees Awarded
Agricultural Economics is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #300 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Agricultural Economics Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 276 degrees in agricultural economics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The ag economics program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Agricultural Economics rankings. We derive our Best Overall Agricultural Economics School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Agricultural Economics Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Agricultural Economics in Illinois
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the ag economics degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student pursuing a degree in agricultural economics needs to check out University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. UIUC is a very large public university located in the city of Champaign. A Best Colleges rank of #34 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UIUC is a great university overall.
There were roughly 227 agricultural economics students who graduated with this degree at UIUC in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Southern Illinois University Carbondale if you want to pursue a degree in agricultural economics. SIUC is a fairly large public university located in the city of Carbondale. This university ranks 23rd out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 27 agricultural economics students who graduated with this degree at SIUC in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in agricultural economics has to look into Lake Land College. Located in the distant town of Mattoon, Lake Land College is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 75th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 12 agricultural economics students who graduated with this degree at Lake Land College in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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The ag economics program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Agricultural Economics rankings. We derive our Best Overall Agricultural Economics School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
