2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Communication/Journalism in California

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 Communication/Journalism Schools for a Bachelor’s in California” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 448 people earned their degree in agricultural communication/journalism, making the major the 591st most popular in the United States.

Across California, there were 24 agricultural communication/journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 agricultural communication/journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agricultural communication/journalism programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Value Agricultural Communication/Journalism Schools for a Bachelor’s in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agricultural Communication/Journalism Schools for a Bachelor’s in California.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Communication/Journalism in California

#1

California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo, California

#1 in overall quality

$21,595 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Agricultural Communication/Journalism Schools for a Bachelor’s in California. California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo is a public institution located in San Luis Obispo, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 24 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural Communication/Journalism Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list. The yearly cost to attend California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo is $21,595 for California Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Communication/Journalism students.

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 1.1% 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%.

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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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