2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agriculture in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 an Associate in the Southwest Region” 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 the Southwest region, there were 770 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 385 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree agriculture students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agriculture in the Southwest Region

#1

Oklahoma Panhandle State University

Goodwell, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$10,537 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Panhandle State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Goodwell, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s agriculture degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

OPSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agriculture Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Oklahoma Panhandle State University is $10,537 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Agriculture students.

Read more about Agriculture at Oklahoma Panhandle State University

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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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