2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics & Business in Texas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Texas” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Texas, there were 1,120 agricultural economics and business graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,329 and $18,923 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 49 agricultural economics and business graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Texas” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Texas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Texas.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics & Business in Texas

#1

Texas A&M University - College Station

College Station, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$22,743 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$51,106 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Texas list. Located in College Station, Texas, this large public school awarded 36 degrees to qualified masters’s agricultural business students in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M College Station also took the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Economics & Business Master’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas A&M University - College Station are $22,743, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Agricultural Economics & Business at Texas A&M University - College Station

#2

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$17,530 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Business Schools for a Master’s in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas Tech is a large public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 11 masters’s agricultural business degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas Tech also made our “Best Agricultural Economics & Business Master’s Degree Schools in Texas” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Tech are $17,530.

Read full report on Agricultural Economics & Business at Texas Tech University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics & Business in the Southwest Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics & Business

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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