2022 Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,550 people earned their degree in ag mechanization, making the major the 235th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, ag mechanization graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $44,100 and had an average of $16,882 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 67 ag mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $20,500 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 36 ag mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality ag mechanization programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the ag mechanization program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree ag mech students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Northwest Mississippi Community College

Senatobia, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$6,009 Average Net Price

$43,575 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwest Mississippi Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. NWCC is located in Senatobia, Mississippi and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 associates’s ag mech degrees to qualified students.

NWCC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Agricultural Mechanization Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $6,009 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Ag Mech students with aid per year to attend NWCC.

Read full report on Agricultural Mechanization at Northwest Mississippi Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization (With Aid)

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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