2022 Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest 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 “Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” 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 Southwest region, there were 352 agricultural production graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,700 and $21,950 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 179 agricultural production graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the agricultural production program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. 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 Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production in the Southwest Region

#1

Stephen F Austin State University

Nacogdoches, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$13,723 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stephen F Austin State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Stephen F Austin State University is located in Nacogdoches, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 15 bachelors’s agricultural production degrees to qualified students.

SFASU also made our “Best Agricultural Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Stephen F Austin State University is $13,723 for southwest region bachelor’s degree agricultural production students.

Full Stephen F Austin State University Agricultural Production Report

#2

Texas A&M University - College Station

College Station, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$19,057 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in College Station, Texas, this large public school handed out 164 degrees to qualified bachelors’s agricultural production students in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M College Station also took the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Texas A&M University - College Station is $19,057 for southwest region bachelor’s degree agricultural production students.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. 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%.

Full Texas A&M College Station Agricultural Production Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production

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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