2023 Most Well Attended Agricultural Business Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Agricultural Business Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 8,098 people earned their degree in agricultural economics and business, making the major the 101st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, agricultural economics and business graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,304 and had an average of $18,874 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 58 agricultural economics and business graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $23,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 45 agricultural economics and business graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Agricultural Business Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in agricultural economics and business. To top this list, a school must have a successful agricultural economics and business program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Agricultural Business Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree agricultural business students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Economics & Business in the New England Region

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Top 25% overall quality in New England

$23,250 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Agricultural Business Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school handed out 39 degrees to qualified bachelors’s agricultural business students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, 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.

Full University of Connecticut Agricultural Economics & Business Report

2

Vermont Technical College
Randolph, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vermont Technical College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Agricultural Business Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Randolph, Vermont, this small public school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s agricultural business students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Agricultural Economics & Business at Vermont Tech

• Most Popular Bachelor’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

• *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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