2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture (Income $30-$48k) in Kentucky

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking.

General Agriculture is the 148th most popular major in the country with 3,332 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general agriculture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,257 and had an average of $20,441 in loans still to pay off.

Across Kentucky, there were 145 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,167 and $22,530 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,847 and $34,311 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general 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 general agriculture program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture (Income $30-$48k) in Kentucky

#1

Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$18,340 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Kentucky University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $30-$48k list. WKU is a fairly large public school situated in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It awarded 7 masters’s agriculture degrees in 2019-2020.

WKU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Agriculture Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Western Kentucky University are $18,340, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about General Agriculture at WKU

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture (Income $30-$48k)

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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