You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in New York list. This large school is located in Ithaca, New York, and it awarded 10 masters’s agriculture degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.