2022 Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Agricultural Mechanization is the 235th most popular major in the country with 1,550 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Southwest region, there were 74 ag mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,200 and $20,817 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 ag mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in ag mechanization. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent ag mechanization programs, but they also 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 ag mechanization program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The ag mech school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region”.

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Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization in the Southwest Region

#1

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$14,617 Average Net Price

$57,995 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Sam Houston State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Huntsville, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s ag mech degrees to 28 students in 2019-2020.

SHSU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Agricultural Mechanization Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $14,617 for southwest region bachelor’s degree ag mech students per year to attend SHSU.

Full Sam Houston State University Agricultural Mechanization Report

#2

Stephen F Austin State University

Nacogdoches, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$13,723 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stephen F Austin State University landed the #2 spot on the list. SFASU is located in Nacogdoches, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s ag mech degrees to qualified students.

SFASU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Agricultural Mechanization Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend SFASU is $13,723 for southwest region bachelor’s degree ag mech students.

Read more about Agricultural Mechanization at SFASU

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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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