2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture in the Southwest Region

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 Doctorate in the Southwest Region” 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 the Southwest region, there were 770 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agriculture programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the agriculture program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree agriculture students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture in the Southwest Region

#1

West Texas A&M University

Canyon, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$8,013 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Texas A&M University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region list. Canyon, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s agriculture degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at West Texas A&M University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Agriculture Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at West Texas A&M University are $8,013, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Agriculture at West Texas A&M 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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