2024 Best Agricultural Engineering Schools in California

A degree in agricultural engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #341 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 California to determine which ones were the best for agricultural engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 64 degrees in agricultural engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Agricultural Engineering Schools List

Agricultural Engineering Rankings by Degree Level

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Agricultural Engineering Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that 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 Agricultural Engineering in California

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 ae degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top California Schools in AE

1

University of California - Davis
Davis, CA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

38.5% Growth in Graduates

University of California - Davis is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in agricultural engineering. UC Davis is a fairly large public university located in the small suburb of Davis.More information about a degree in agricultural engineering from University of California - Davis

2

California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

51 AE Degrees Awarded

23.5% Growth in Graduates

It is hard to beat California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo if you want to pursue a degree in agricultural engineering. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a fairly large public university located in the small suburb of San Luis Obispo.More information about a degree in agricultural engineering from California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Best Agricultural Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Agricultural Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Washington	831	20
Oregon	587	30
Hawaii	267	12

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Rankings in Majors Related to AE

Agricultural Engineering is one of 0 different types of Agricultural Engineering programs to choose from.

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.