2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 552 people earned their degree in agroecology and sustainable agriculture, making the major the 617th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 136 agroecology and sustainable agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 agroecology and sustainable agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agroecology and sustainable agriculture. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their agroecology and sustainable agriculture program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree agroecology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture in the Southeast Region

1

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the Southeast Region list. Mississippi State University is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 masters’s agroecology degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Mississippi State Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture Report

2

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agroecology Major in the Southeast Region. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a large school located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that handed out 5 masters’s agroecology degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture at Louisiana State University

• Most Focused Master’s 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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