2022 Best Value Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Schools for a Bachelor’s

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In 2019-2020, 439 people earned their degree in farm/farm and ranch management, making the major the 720th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 145 farm/farm and ranch management graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in farm/farm and ranch management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great farm/farm and ranch management programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the farm/farm and ranch management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree farm/farm & ranch management students.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Farm/Farm & Ranch Management

#1

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#3 in overall quality

$15,496 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Ames, Iowa, this large public school handed out 112 degrees to qualified bachelors’s farm/farm and ranch management students in 2019-2020.

Iowa State also made our “Best Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $15,496 for Bachelor’s Degree Farm/Farm & Ranch Management students per year to attend Iowa State University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Farm/Farm & Ranch Management at Iowa State University

#2

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana

#2 in overall quality

$13,986 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Purdue is a large public school situated in West Lafayette, Indiana. It awarded 12 bachelors’s farm/farm and ranch management degrees in 2019-2020.

Purdue not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $13,986 for Bachelor’s Degree Farm/Farm & Ranch Management students per year to attend Purdue.

The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Farm/Farm & Ranch Management at Purdue

#3

Texas A&M University - College Station

College Station, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$19,057 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #3 spot on the list. College Station, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s farm/farm and ranch management degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M College Station did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Texas A&M College Station is $19,057 for Bachelor’s Degree Farm/Farm & Ranch Management students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management at Texas A&M University - College Station

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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