2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture (Income Over $110k) in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Agriculture Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 3,332 people earned their degree in general agriculture, making the major the 148th most popular in the United States. 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 500 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,000 and $13,854 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general agriculture programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general agriculture program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Vallue Agriculture Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree agriculture students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture (Income Over $110k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Illinois State University

Normal, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$11,069 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Agriculture Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making Over $110k list. Normal, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s agriculture degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

Illinois State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Agriculture Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Illinois State University are $11,069, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Agriculture at Illinois State

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture (Income Over $110k)

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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