2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agribusiness Major in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$34,200
Avg Cost*
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agribusiness Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 3,108 people earned their degree in agribusiness/agricultural business operations, making the major the 230th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 465 agribusiness/agricultural business operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 agribusiness/agricultural business operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agribusiness Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agribusiness/agricultural business operations. That schools that top this list have a program in agribusiness/agricultural business operations in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agribusiness Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree agribusiness students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agribusiness Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Lubbock, Texas, this large public school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified masters’s agribusiness students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations at Texas Tech University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agribusiness Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in College Station, Texas, this large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s agribusiness students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations at Texas A&M College Station
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Notes and References
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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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.
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