2022 Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,610 people earned their degree in agricultural production, making the major the 177th most popular in the United States. 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 Southwest region, there were 352 agricultural production graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,700 and $21,950 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 37 agricultural production graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The agricultural production school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region”.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production in the Southwest Region

#1

Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus

Portales, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$9,516 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. ENMU - Main Campus is a medium-sized public school situated in Portales, New Mexico. It awarded 1 associates’s agricultural production degrees in 2019-2020.

ENMU - Main Campus did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural Production Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus is $9,516 for southwest region associate degree agricultural production students.

Read more about Agricultural Production at Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus

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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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