2022 Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

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In 2019-2020, 490 people earned their degree in agricultural mechanization, making the major the 580th most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 37 agricultural mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 agricultural mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,469 and $14,548 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the agricultural mechanization program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization (Income $0-$30k) in Illinois

#1

Rend Lake College

Ina, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$4,905 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Rend Lake College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Ina, Illinois, and it awarded 11 associates’s ag mech degrees in 2019-2020.

Rend Lake College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Mechanization Associate Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Rend Lake College is $4,905 for Illinois Associate Degree Ag Mech students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Agricultural Mechanization at Rend Lake College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization (Income $0-$30k)

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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