2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agriculture in Iowa

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 Iowa” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Agriculture is the 188th most popular major in the country with 3,332 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Iowa, there were 30 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 26 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,684 and $18,179 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in Iowa” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agriculture. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agriculture programs, but they also 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in Iowa

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

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agriculture in Iowa

#1

Ellsworth Community College

Iowa Falls, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

$11,198 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ellsworth Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in Iowa. Ellsworth Community College is located in Iowa Falls, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 23 associates’s agriculture degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ellsworth, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Agriculture Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. It costs about $11,198 for Iowa Associate Degree Agriculture students per year to attend Ellsworth.

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#2

Dordt University

Sioux Center, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$25,102 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dordt University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in Iowa list. Sioux Center, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s agriculture degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Dordt also made our “Best Agriculture Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Dordt is $25,102 for Iowa Associate Degree Agriculture students.

The low student loan default rate of 1.8% 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%.

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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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