2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture is the 617th most popular major in the country with 552 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 118 agroecology and sustainable agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 agroecology and sustainable agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agroecology and sustainable agriculture. That schools that top this list have a program in agroecology and sustainable agriculture in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree agroecology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture in the New England Region

1

Southern Maine Community College
South Portland, Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Maine Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. SMCC is a medium-sized school located in South Portland, Maine that handed out 8 associates’s agroecology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture at SMCC

2

Kennebec Valley Community College
Fairfield, Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kennebec Valley Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Kennebec Valley Community College is a public institution located in Fairfield, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Kennebec Valley Community College Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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