2022 Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in Iowa

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Iowa” 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 Iowa, there were 30 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 26 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,684 and $18,179 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in Iowa” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general agriculture. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general agriculture programs, but they also 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. 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 an Associate in Iowa” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in Iowa

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

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in Iowa

#1

Ellsworth Community College

Iowa Falls, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

$11,198 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Ellsworth Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Ellsworth Community College is a public institution located in Iowa Falls, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 23 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ellsworth, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best General Agriculture Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Ellsworth Community College is $11,198 for Iowa Associate Degree Agriculture students.

Read more about General Agriculture at Ellsworth Community College

#2

Dordt University

Sioux Center, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$25,102 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dordt University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Agriculture Schools for an Associate in Iowa list. Dordt University is a small school located in Sioux Center, Iowa that handed out 1 associates’s agriculture degrees in 2019-2020.

Dordt also made our “Best General Agriculture Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $25,102 for iowa associate degree agriculture students per year to attend Dordt.

The low student loan default rate of 1.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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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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