2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Agribusiness Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations is the 230th most popular major in the country with 3,108 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 177 agribusiness/agricultural business operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 114 agribusiness/agricultural business operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Agribusiness Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in agribusiness/agricultural business operations. To top this list, a school must have a successful agribusiness/agricultural business operations program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Agribusiness Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree agribusiness students.

Top 6 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Wisconsin - River Falls
River Falls, Wisconsin

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - River Falls. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Agribusiness Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s. River Falls, Wisconsin is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s agribusiness degrees to 56 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Wisconsin - Platteville
Platteville, Wisconsin

Out of the 6 schools in the Most Well Attended Agribusiness Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Platteville landed the #2 spot on the list. UW - Platteville is located in Platteville, Wisconsin and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 48 bachelors’s agribusiness degrees to qualified students.

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3

Greenville University
Greenville, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Greenville University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Agribusiness Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s. This small school is located in Greenville, Illinois, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s agribusiness degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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3

Grace College and Theological Seminary
Winona Lake, Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grace College and Theological Seminary. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Agribusiness Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s list. Grace College is a small school located in Winona Lake, Indiana that handed out 3 bachelors’s agribusiness degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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3

Kent State University at Tuscarawas
New Philadelphia, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kent State University at Tuscarawas. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Agribusiness Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s list. New Philadelphia, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s agribusiness degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

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6

Huntington University
Huntington, Indiana

With a ranking of #6, Huntington University did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Agribusiness Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Huntington, Indiana, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s agribusiness students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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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• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations

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

Footnotes

• *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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