2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production Operations

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Ag Production Ops Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 24 people earned their degree in agricultural production operations, making the major the 1192nd most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 agricultural production operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agricultural production operations programs that also have a lower cost than 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Ag Production Ops Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree ag production ops students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production Operations

#1

University of Mount Olive

Mount Olive, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$16,437 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Ag Production Ops Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mount Olive landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Mount Olive, North Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s ag production ops students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMO, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Production Operations Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $16,437 for Bachelor’s Degree Ag Production Ops students per year to attend University of Mount Olive.

Read full report on Agricultural Production Operations at UMO

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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