2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture 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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 72 agroecology and sustainable agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 agroecology and sustainable agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agroecology and sustainable agriculture programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Carbondale, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$32,928 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agroecology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region list. SIUC is a fairly large public school situated in Carbondale, Illinois. It awarded 6 doctorate’s agroecology degrees in 2019-2020.

SIUC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are $32,928, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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