2024 Best Agricultural Economics Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
32Master's Degrees
a master's degree in agricultural economics is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #368 out of 1172 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for agricultural economics students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 32 master's degrees in agricultural economics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Agricultural Economics School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of agricultural economics for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality ag economics program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on agricultural economics students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other agricultural economics students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized agricultural economics related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for agricultural economics students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Agricultural Economics Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Featured Agricultural Economics Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).