2022 Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Southwest region, there were 339 agricultural public services graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,550 and $16,606 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 57 agricultural public services graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural public services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agricultural public services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the agricultural public services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree agricultural public services students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Public Services in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$17,530 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. Texas Tech University is located in Lubbock, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 14 masters’s agricultural public services degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas Tech, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Public Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Tech University are $17,530, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Agricultural Public Services at Texas Tech University

#2

Tarleton State University

Stephenville, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$15,485 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,054 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tarleton State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Agricultural Public Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. Located in Stephenville, Texas, this fairly large public school handed out 38 degrees to qualified masters’s agricultural public services students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region master’s degree agricultural public services students list, Tarleton has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Agricultural Public Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Tarleton are $15,485, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Tarleton Agricultural Public Services Report

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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.

Credits

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

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