2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics & Business in the Southwest Region

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 “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 8,504 people earned their degree in agricultural economics and business, making the major the 94th most popular in the United States. 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 the Southwest region, there were 1,447 agricultural economics and business graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,582 and $18,121 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 70 agricultural economics and business graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great agricultural economics and business programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the agricultural economics and business program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree agricultural business students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics & Business in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas State Technical College

Waco, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$10,114 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Waco, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s agricultural business degrees to 22 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at TSTC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Economics & Business Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $10,114 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Agricultural Business students per year to attend TSTC.

Full Texas State Technical College Agricultural Economics & Business Report

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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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