2024 Best Agriculture Schools in Virginia

A degree in agriculture is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #202 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Virginia to determine which ones were the best for agriculture students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 75 degrees in agriculture during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Agriculture Rankings by Degree Level

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 Agriculture Schools in Virginia list to help you make the college decision. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Agriculture in Virginia

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 agriculture degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top Virginia Schools in Agriculture

1

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

44 Agriculture Degrees Awarded

It's hard to beat Virginia Tech if you want to pursue a degree in agriculture. Located in the city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public school with a fairly large student population.More information about a degree in agriculture from Virginia Tech

2

Virginia State University
Petersburg, VA

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

15.0% Growth in Graduates

Virginia State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in agriculture. Virginia State is a small public university located in the large suburb of Petersburg.More information about a degree in agriculture from Virginia State University

Best Agriculture Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Agriculture Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	715	68
North Carolina	710	86
Georgia	690	17
Tennessee	624	283
Kentucky	518	86
Mississippi	501	35
Alabama	500	30
Louisiana	489	78
Arkansas	466	25
West Virginia	410	22

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Rankings in Majors Related to Agriculture

One of 0 majors within the General Agriculture area of study, Agriculture has other similar majors worth exploring.

Notes and References

• 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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