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2022 Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid

6 Ranked Colleges
64 Degrees Awarded
$25,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master's For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture is the 639th most popular major in the country with 571 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 64 agroecology and sustainable agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agroecology and sustainable agriculture. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agroecology and sustainable agriculture 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 agroecology and sustainable agriculture program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid.

Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture (With Aid)

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Madison, Wisconsin, this large public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s agroecology students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our master’s degree agroecology students with aid list, UW - Madison has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UW - Madison are $25,523, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture at University of Wisconsin - Madison

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Iowa State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid. Located in Ames, Iowa, this large public school awarded 8 degrees to qualified masters’s agroecology students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Iowa State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Iowa State University are $25,948.

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Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #3 spot on the list. Champaign, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s agroecology degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

UIUC also made our “Best Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are $30,083, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#4

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. Mississippi State is a large school located in Mississippi State, Mississippi that handed out 14 masters’s agroecology degrees in 2019-2020.

Mississippi State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture Master’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Mississippi State University are $23,950.

Read more about Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture at Mississippi State

#5

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, Texas
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sam Houston State University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid. Huntsville, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s agroecology degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

SHSU also took the #5 spot in our “Best Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at SHSU are $15,704, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#4 in overall quality

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid ranking. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a large public school situated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It awarded 6 masters’s agroecology degrees in 2019-2020.

Louisiana State University also made our “Best Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. Average graduate tuition and fees at Louisiana State University are $29,970, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture at Louisiana State University

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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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