2022 Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

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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.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent ag mechanization programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the ag mechanization program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization in the Southeast Region

#1

Northwest Mississippi Community College

Senatobia, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$6,009 Average Net Price

$43,575 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwest Mississippi Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Ag Mech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Located in Senatobia, Mississippi, this medium-sized public school awarded 12 diplomas to qualified associates’s ag mech students in 2019-2020.

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 per year to attend NWCC.

Read more about Agricultural Mechanization at Northwest Mississippi Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization

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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