2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Farm/Farm & Ranch Management

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 farm/farm and ranch management graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major” ranking, we looked at 2 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Farm/Farm & Ranch Management

1

Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Kingsville, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - Kingsville landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M Kingsville is located in Kingsville, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 masters’s farm/farm and ranch management degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management at Texas A&M Kingsville

2

Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

Top 10% overall quality in United States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Farm/Farm & Ranch Management Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Iowa State University is a large school located in Ames, Iowa that handed out 115 masters’s farm/farm and ranch management degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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

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

• *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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