2022 Best Value Ag Production Ops Schools for an Associate

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 for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agricultural Production Operations is the 1192nd most popular major in the country with 24 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 17 agricultural production operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Ag Production Ops Schools for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural production operations. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agricultural production operations programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the agricultural production operations program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Ag Production Ops Schools for an Associate

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

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production Operations

#1

Kirkwood Community College

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$10,939 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kirkwood Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Ag Production Ops Schools for an Associate list. Kirkwood Community College is a public institution located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 12 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Kirkwood Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Production Operations Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Kirkwood Community College is $10,939 for associate degree ag production ops students.

Read more about Agricultural Production Operations at Kirkwood Community College

#2

Ellsworth Community College

Iowa Falls, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

$11,198 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Ag Production Ops Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Ellsworth Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Ellsworth is located in Iowa Falls, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 associates’s ag production ops degrees to qualified students.

Ellsworth also took the #2 spot in our “Best Agricultural Production Operations Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Ellsworth is $11,198 for associate degree ag production ops students.

Full Ellsworth Community College Agricultural Production Operations Report

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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