by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Production Major in Iowa” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 3,066 people earned their degree in agricultural production, making the major the 190th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, agricultural production graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,367 and had an average of $16,973 in loans still to pay off.
Across Iowa, there were 177 agricultural production graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,419 and $10,088 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 agricultural production graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,980 and $30,839 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Production Major in Iowa” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agricultural production. That schools that top this list have a program in agricultural production in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Production Major in Iowa”.
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.
The colleges and universities below are the best for iowa bachelor’s degree agricultural production students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Maharishi International University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Production Major in Iowa list. Maharishi International University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Fairfield, Iowa. It awarded 2 bachelors’s agricultural production degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Production Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Dordt University landed the #2 spot on the list. Sioux Center, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s agricultural production degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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