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2022 Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k

2 Ranked Colleges
19 Degrees Awarded
$31,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master's in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agricultural Economics & Business is the 94th most popular major in the country with 8,504 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, agricultural economics and business graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $40,058 and had an average of $17,639 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 433 agricultural economics and business graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,350 and $16,246 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 agricultural economics and business graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,267 and $46,814 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural economics and business. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agricultural economics and business programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agricultural economics and business program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois master’s degree agricultural business students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics & Business (Income $48-$75k) in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k list. UIUC is a public institution located in Champaign, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UIUC also made our “Best Agricultural Economics & Business Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are $30,083, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#1 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #2 spot on the list. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a fairly large school located in Carbondale, Illinois that handed out 12 masters’s agricultural business degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our illinois master’s degree agricultural business students whose families make $48-$75k list, SIUC has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Agricultural Economics & Business Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are $32,928, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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