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2022 Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

7 Ranked Colleges
223 Degrees Awarded
$20,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Agricultural Production is the 177th most popular major in the country with 3,610 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, agricultural production graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,100 and had an average of $16,942 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 903 agricultural production graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,125 and $19,184 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 223 agricultural production graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agricultural production. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agricultural production programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agricultural production program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree agricultural production students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 7 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production (Income $75-$110k) in the Southeast Region

#1

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina
#3 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 Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. North Carolina State University is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s agricultural production degrees to qualified students.

NC State also took the #3 spot in our “Best Agricultural Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $19,541 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Production students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend NC State.

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

Read full report on Agricultural Production at North Carolina State University

#2

Eastern Kentucky University

Richmond, Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Kentucky University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Richmond, Kentucky is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s agricultural production degrees to 37 students in 2019-2020.

Eastern also took the #6 spot in our “Best Agricultural Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $17,293 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Production students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Eastern Kentucky University.

Read more about Agricultural Production at Eastern Kentucky University

#3

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k. University of Kentucky is a large public school situated in Lexington, Kentucky. It awarded 80 bachelors’s agricultural production degrees in 2019-2020.

UK not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Agricultural Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $20,337 for southeast region bachelor’s degree agricultural production students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend UK.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Kentucky Agricultural Production Report

#4

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Mississippi State University is a large public school situated in Mississippi State, Mississippi. It awarded 15 bachelors’s agricultural production degrees in 2019-2020.

Mississippi State also took the #5 spot in our “Best Agricultural Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Mississippi State University is $19,558 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Production students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Agricultural Production at Mississippi State

#5

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. This large school is located in Auburn, Alabama, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s agricultural production degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Auburn, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Auburn University is $26,518 for southeast region bachelor’s degree agricultural production students whose families make $75-$110k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Agricultural Production at Auburn University

#6

University of Mount Olive

Mount Olive, North Carolina
#7 in overall quality

With a ranking of #6, University of Mount Olive did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Mount Olive, North Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s agricultural production students in 2019-2020.

UMO not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #7 on our “Best Agricultural Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for UMO is $18,615 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Production students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read full report on Agricultural Production at UMO

#7

Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina

With a ranking of #7, Clemson University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. This large school is located in Clemson, South Carolina, and it awarded 38 bachelors’s agricultural production degrees in 2019-2020.

Clemson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Agricultural Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $22,937 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Production students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Clemson.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Read more about Agricultural Production at Clemson

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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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