by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 537 people earned their degree in farm/farm and ranch management, making the major the 757th most popular in the United States.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 147 farm/farm and ranch management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in farm/farm and ranch management. That schools that top this list have a program in farm/farm and ranch management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree farm/farm & ranch management students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lake Erie College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major list. Lake Erie College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Painesville, Ohio. It awarded 6 bachelors’s farm/farm and ranch management degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management at Lake Erie College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major list. Iowa State is a public institution located in Ames, Iowa. The school has a large population, and it awarded 115 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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 undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Iowa State University Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Christian University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major. TCU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Fort Worth, Texas. It awarded 5 bachelors’s farm/farm and ranch management degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major. This large school is located in College Station, Texas, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s farm/farm and ranch management degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Farm/Farm & Ranch Management at Texas A&M College Station
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major. Located in West Lafayette, Indiana, this large public school handed out 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s farm/farm and ranch management students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Farm/Farm & Ranch Management at Purdue University - Main Campus
Montana State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major ranking, coming in at #6. Montana State University is a fairly large school located in Bozeman, Montana that handed out 0 bachelors’s farm/farm and ranch management degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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