2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 the Southwest region, there were 770 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,880 and $19,336 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 385 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general agriculture programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general agriculture program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. 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 an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Oklahoma Panhandle State University

Goodwell, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$10,537 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Panhandle State University landed the #1 spot on the list. OPSU is a small public school situated in Goodwell, Oklahoma. It awarded 15 associates’s agriculture degrees in 2019-2020.

OPSU also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Agriculture Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $10,537 for southwest region associate degree agriculture students with aid per year to attend OPSU.

Read more about General Agriculture at Oklahoma Panhandle State University

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Agriculture (With Aid)

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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