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2022 Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
106 Degrees Awarded
$16,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

Agricultural Public Services is the 251st most popular major in the country with 823 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, agricultural public services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $34,100 and had an average of $18,733 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 127 agricultural public services graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,300 and $19,455 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 106 agricultural public services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural public services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agricultural public services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the agricultural public services program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree agricultural public services students with aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Public Services in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. UW - Madison is located in Madison, Wisconsin and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 59 bachelors’s agricultural public services degrees to qualified students.

UW - Madison not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Agricultural Public Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison is $17,708 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Public Services students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full UW - Madison Agricultural Public Services Report

#2

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Purdue University - Main Campus is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 bachelors’s agricultural public services degrees to qualified students.

Purdue also took the #3 spot in our “Best Agricultural Public Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Purdue is $13,986 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Public Services students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.

Read full report on Agricultural Public Services at Purdue University - Main Campus

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. This large school is located in Champaign, Illinois, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s agricultural public services degrees in 2019-2020.

UIUC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Agricultural Public Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for UIUC is $15,880 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree agricultural public services students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Agricultural Public Services at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #4 spot on the list. Ohio State is located in Columbus, Ohio and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s agricultural public services degrees to qualified students.

Ohio State also took the #4 spot in our “Best Agricultural Public Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $17,616 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree agricultural public services students with aid per year to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%.

Read more about Agricultural Public Services at Ohio State 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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