2023 Most Focused Colleges for Agricultural Business & Management in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Business Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agricultural Business & Management is the 910th most popular major in the country with 139 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 17 agricultural business and management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Business Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural business and management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their agricultural business and management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Business Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Business Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Agricultural Business & Management in the Great Lakes Region

1

Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute
Wooster, Ohio

$28,933 Average Early-Career Earnings

$11,600 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Business Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This small school is located in Wooster, Ohio, and it awarded 17 ’s agricultural business degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute Agricultural Business & Management Report

2

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

$50,802 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,543 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Business Major in the Great Lakes Region. This large school is located in Madison, Wisconsin, and it awarded 0 ’s agricultural business degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Agricultural Business & Management at University of Wisconsin - Madison

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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

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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