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2023 Best Value Colleges for Agricultural Production Operations

1 Ranked Colleges

19 Degrees Awarded

$9,900 Avg Net Price*

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Ag Production Ops Schools” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agricultural Production Operations is the 1275th most popular major in the country with 19 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agricultural production operations 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 Production Ops Schools

The colleges and universities below are the best for ag production ops students.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Agricultural Production Operations

Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$9,906 Average Net Price

$38,090 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Ag Production Ops Schools that were part of this year’s ranking, Kirkwood Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Kirkwood Community College is a public institution located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our ag production ops students list, Kirkwood Community College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Agricultural Production Operations Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Kirkwood Community College is $9,906 for Ag Production Ops students.

Read full report on Agricultural Production Operations at Kirkwood Community College

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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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