2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Ag Economics Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 2,141 people earned their degree in agricultural economics, making the major the 268th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 195 agricultural economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 agricultural economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agricultural economics 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 economics program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The ag economics school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Ag Economics Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region”.

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Best Value Ag Economics Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Ag Economics Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics in the Plains States Region

#1

North Iowa Area Community College

Mason City, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$8,409 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Ag Economics Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Iowa Area Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. North Iowa Area Community College is a small public school situated in Mason City, Iowa. It awarded 1 associates’s ag economics degrees in 2019-2020.

North Iowa Area Community College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Economics Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $8,409 for plains states region associate degree ag economics students per year to attend North Iowa Area Community College.

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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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