2022 Best Value Ag Economics Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Ag Economics Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Illinois, there were 294 agricultural economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 agricultural economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,900 and $148,219 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great agricultural economics programs and 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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Best Value Ag Economics Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois doctor’s degree ag economics students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics in Illinois

#1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$30,083 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Ag Economics Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified doctorate’s ag economics students in 2019-2020.

UIUC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural Economics Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UIUC are $30,083.

Read full report on Agricultural Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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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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