2023 Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Communication/Journalism Major in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Communication/Journalism Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Agricultural Communication/Journalism is the 595th most popular major in the country with 462 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 24 agricultural communication/journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Communication/Journalism Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agricultural communication/journalism. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their agricultural communication/journalism program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Communication/Journalism Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region agricultural communication/journalism students.

Top 3 Most Focused Colleges for Agricultural Communication/Journalism in the Southeast Region

1

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Tifton, Georgia

$33,510 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,551 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Communication/Journalism Major in the Southeast Region. Tifton, Georgia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s agricultural communication/journalism degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Full Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Agricultural Communication/Journalism Report

2

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#10 overall quality in Southeast

$46,768 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,019 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Communication/Journalism Major in the Southeast Region. University of Georgia is a large school located in Athens, Georgia that handed out 17 ’s agricultural communication/journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Agricultural Communication/Journalism at University of Georgia

3

Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

$49,769 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,929 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Agricultural Communication/Journalism Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #3 spot on the list. Auburn University is a public institution located in Auburn, Alabama. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Agricultural Communication/Journalism at Auburn

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bob Nichols.