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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Public Services in the Great Lakes Region

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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 823 people earned their degree in agricultural public services, making the major the 251st most popular in the United States. 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” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural public services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great agricultural public services programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agricultural public services 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 Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region.

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

#1

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 that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in West Lafayette, Indiana, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s agricultural public services degrees in 2019-2020.

Purdue also made our “Best Agricultural Public Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #3. The estimated yearly cost for Purdue is $13,986 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree agricultural public services students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Wisconsin - 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 estimated yearly cost for University of Wisconsin - Madison is $17,708 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree agricultural public services students.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Read more about Agricultural Public Services at University of Wisconsin - Madison

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. Columbus, Ohio is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s agricultural public services degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Ohio State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Agricultural Public Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Ohio State is $17,616 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree agricultural public services students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Read more about Agricultural Public Services at Ohio State University - Main Campus

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #4 spot on the list. UIUC is a large school located in Champaign, Illinois that handed out 23 bachelors’s agricultural public services degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIUC, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Agricultural Public Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is $15,880 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree agricultural public services students.

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

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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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