2022 Best Value Ag Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Ag Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agricultural Economics is the 268th most popular major in the country with 2,141 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 324 agricultural economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 225 agricultural economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Ag Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in agricultural economics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agricultural economics programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the agricultural economics program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Ag Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Ag Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

University of Maryland - College Park

College Park, Maryland

#2 in overall quality

$19,045 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Ag Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Maryland - College Park is a large public school situated in College Park, Maryland. It awarded 31 bachelors’s ag economics degrees in 2019-2020.

UMCP did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Agricultural Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for UMCP is $19,045 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Ag Economics students.

The low student loan default rate of 2.4% 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.

Full University of Maryland - College Park Agricultural Economics Report

#2

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

#1 in overall quality

$40,126 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Ag Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This large school is located in Ithaca, New York, and it awarded 194 bachelors’s ag economics degrees in 2019-2020.

Cornell did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Cornell University is $40,126 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Ag Economics students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national 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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