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2022 Best Value Crop Production Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
231 Degrees Awarded
$15,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Crop Production Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

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 “Best Value Crop Production Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Crop Production is the 723rd most popular major in the country with 376 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 231 crop production graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Crop Production Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in crop production. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great crop production programs and 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 crop production program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Crop Production Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Crop Production Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Crop Production Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid.

Top 4 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Crop Production (With Aid)

#1

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Crop Production Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid list. This large school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 18 associates’s crop production degrees in 2019-2020.

NC State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Crop Production Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $16,458 for Associate Degree Crop Production students with aid per year to attend NC State.

The low student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Crop Production at NC State

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Crop Production Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid list. ABAC Tifton is located in Tifton, Georgia and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 associates’s crop production degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our associate degree crop production students with aid list, ABAC Tifton has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Crop Production Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is $6,933 for associate degree crop production students with aid.

Read full report on Crop Production at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Crop Production Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid list. Wooster, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s crop production degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Crop Production Associate Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute is $17,608 for Associate Degree Crop Production students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Crop Production at Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute

#4

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Crop Production Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Amherst, Massachusetts, this large public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified associates’s crop production students in 2019-2020.

UMass Amherst also took the #3 spot in our “Best Crop Production Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $22,501 for Associate Degree Crop Production students with aid per year to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Crop Production at UMass Amherst

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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