2022 Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general agriculture programs and cost less that 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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Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in the Southwest Region

#1

Oklahoma Panhandle State University

Goodwell, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$10,537 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma Panhandle State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Oklahoma Panhandle State University is a small school located in Goodwell, Oklahoma that handed out 15 associates’s agriculture degrees in 2019-2020.

OPSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Agriculture Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for OPSU is $10,537 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Agriculture students.

Read more about General Agriculture at OPSU

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Agriculture

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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