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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Business in the Great Lakes Region

4 Ranked Colleges
281 Degrees Awarded
$18,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Agricultural Business is the 277th most popular major in the country with 2,193 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 523 agricultural business graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 281 agricultural business graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in agricultural business. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agricultural business programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the agricultural business program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Business in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Purdue University - Main Campus is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 128 bachelors’s agricultural business degrees to qualified students.

Purdue did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Purdue University - Main Campus is $13,986 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Business students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

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#2

Wilmington College

Wilmington, Ohio
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wilmington College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. This small school is located in Wilmington, Ohio, and it awarded 62 bachelors’s agricultural business degrees in 2019-2020.

Wilmington College also took the #4 spot in our “Best Agricultural Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Wilmington College is $21,216 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Business students.

Full Wilmington College Agricultural Business Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. UW - Madison is located in Madison, Wisconsin and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 19 bachelors’s agricultural business degrees to qualified students.

UW - Madison also made our “Best Agricultural Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $17,708 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Business students per year to attend UW - Madison.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Agricultural Business at UW - Madison

#4

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Michigan State is a public institution located in East Lansing, Michigan. The school has a large population, and it awarded 63 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Michigan State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Agricultural Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Michigan State University is $19,173 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree agricultural business students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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