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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Business in the Plains States Region

5 Ranked Colleges
263 Degrees Awarded
$15,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 698 agricultural business graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 263 agricultural business graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in agricultural business. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agricultural business programs, but they also cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

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

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Business in the Plains States Region

#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska at Kearney. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. This medium-sized school is located in Kearney, Nebraska, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s agricultural business degrees in 2019-2020.

UNK not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Agricultural Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $16,017 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Business students per year to attend UNK.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Fort Hays State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. This fairly large school is located in Hays, Kansas, and it awarded 60 bachelors’s agricultural business degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at FHSU, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Agricultural Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Fort Hays State University is $12,053 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Business students.

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#3

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Kansas State University is a public institution located in Manhattan, Kansas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 65 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

K -State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Agricultural Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for K -State is $18,285 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Business students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

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#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. University of Nebraska - Lincoln is a large school located in Lincoln, Nebraska that handed out 47 bachelors’s agricultural business degrees in 2019-2020.

UNL also made our “Best Agricultural Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $17,208 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Business students per year to attend UNL.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Missouri - Columbia. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Mizzou is a large school located in Columbia, Missouri that handed out 50 bachelors’s agricultural business degrees in 2019-2020.

Mizzou also took the #2 spot in our “Best Agricultural Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $16,001 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Business students per year to attend Mizzou.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 3.6% 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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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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