2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Ag Mech Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Agricultural Mechanization is the 252nd most popular major in the country with 1,280 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, ag mechanization graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,820 and had an average of $17,584 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 360 ag mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,824 and $15,747 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 ag mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Ag Mech Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in ag mechanization. To top this list, a school must have a successful ag mechanization 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 Ag Mech Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree ag mech students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization in the Great Lakes Region

1

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, Indiana

#8 overall quality in Great Lakes

$51,820 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,494 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Ag Mech Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s list. This large school is located in West Lafayette, Indiana, and it awarded 28 bachelors’s ag mech degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Purdue University - Main Campus Agricultural Mechanization Report

2

University of Wisconsin - River Falls
River Falls, Wisconsin

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - River Falls. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Ag Mech Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s list. University of Wisconsin - River Falls is a public institution located in River Falls, Wisconsin. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Agricultural Mechanization at UW - River Falls

• Most Popular Bachelor’s 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

• *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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