2024 Best Agriculture Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in agriculture, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #149 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for agriculture students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 258 bachelor's degrees in agriculture during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Agriculture School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of agriculture for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on agriculture students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of agriculture students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized agriculture related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for agriculture students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Agriculture Schools

The agriculture school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Agriculture Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Agriculture in Illinois

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in agriculture.

Top Illinois Schools for a Bachelor's in Agriculture

1

Illinois State University
Normal, IL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

172 Annual Graduates

Illinois State University is a good option for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in agriculture. Located in the midsize suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in agriculture from Illinois State University

2

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, IL

11 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in agriculture has to look into Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Located in the small city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in agriculture from Southern Illinois University Carbondale

3

Western Illinois University
Macomb, IL

75 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in agriculture needs to look into Western Illinois University. WIU is a moderately-sized public university located in the remote town of Macomb.More information about a bachelor’s in agriculture from Western Illinois University

Best Agriculture Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Agriculture Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	629	1
Indiana	535	19
Wisconsin	435	8

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Rankings in Majors Related to Agriculture

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to W.carter. More about our data sources and methodologies.