2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Public Services in the Southwest Region

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Agricultural Public Services is the 250th most popular major in the country with 845 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, agricultural public services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,132 and had an average of $18,854 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 350 agricultural public services graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,005 and $18,780 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 67 agricultural public services graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Public Services Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural public services. That schools that top this list have a program in agricultural public services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Public Services Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Public Services Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Public Services in the Southwest Region

1

Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas

$42,083 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tarleton State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Public Services Major in the Southwest Region list. Tarleton is a fairly large public school situated in Stephenville, Texas. It awarded 43 masters’s agricultural public services degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Agricultural Public Services at Tarleton State University

2

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas

#23 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Public Services Major in the Southwest Region. Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 17 masters’s agricultural public services degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Agricultural Public Services at Texas Tech University

3

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural Public Services Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and it awarded 7 masters’s agricultural public services degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Public Services

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.