2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$35,300
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 1,912 people earned their degree in agricultural economics, making the major the 300th most popular in the United States.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 267 agricultural economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 217 agricultural economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agricultural economics. That schools that top this list have a program in agricultural economics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree ag economics students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Ithaca, New York, and it awarded 182 bachelors’s ag economics degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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 impressive undergraduate 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. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Agricultural Economics at Cornell University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ag Economics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the #2 spot on the list. College Park, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s ag economics degrees to 35 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Agricultural Economics at UMCP
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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