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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture (Income $0-$30k) in Iowa

1 Ranked Colleges
3 Degrees Awarded
$25,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor's in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,332 people earned their degree in agriculture, making the major the 188th most popular in the United States.

Across Iowa, there were 30 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,922 and $25,876 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great agriculture programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agriculture 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 Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture (Income $0-$30k) in Iowa

#1

Dordt University

Sioux Center, Iowa
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dordt University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k. Sioux Center, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s agriculture degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Dordt not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list. It costs about $24,967 for Iowa Bachelor’s Degree Agriculture students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Dordt University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Agriculture at Dordt University

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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