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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural & Food Products Processing

5 Ranked Colleges
102 Degrees Awarded
$17,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor's

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 251 people earned their degree in agricultural and food products processing, making the major the 842nd most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 102 agricultural and food products processing graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in agricultural and food products processing. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great agricultural and food products processing programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agricultural and food products processing program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural & Food Products Processing

#1

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kansas State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s. This large school is located in Manhattan, Kansas, and it awarded 49 bachelors’s agricultural processing degrees in 2019-2020.

K -State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Agricultural & Food Products Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Kansas State University is $18,285 for bachelor’s degree agricultural processing students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

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#2

Angelo State University

San Angelo, Texas
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Angelo State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s. This fairly large school is located in San Angelo, Texas, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s agricultural processing degrees in 2019-2020.

Angelo State also took the #5 spot in our “Best Agricultural & Food Products Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Angelo State is $13,819 for Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Processing students.

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#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s list. University of Nebraska - Lincoln is located in Lincoln, Nebraska and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s agricultural processing degrees to qualified students.

UNL not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Agricultural & Food Products Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Nebraska - Lincoln is $17,208 for Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Processing students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Texas A&M University - College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s agricultural processing degrees to qualified students.

Texas A&M College Station also made our “Best Agricultural & Food Products Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M College Station is $19,057 for bachelor’s degree agricultural processing students.

The low student loan default rate of 2.9% 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.

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#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Agricultural Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s. Ohio State is a large public school situated in Columbus, Ohio. It awarded 14 bachelors’s agricultural processing degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree agricultural processing students list, Ohio State has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Agricultural & Food Products Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus is $17,616 for bachelor’s degree agricultural processing students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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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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