2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in Oregon

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Bachelor’s in Oregon” 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 Oregon, there were 93 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,600 and $19,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 89 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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. 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 a Bachelor’s in Oregon” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon

The colleges and universities below are the best for oregon bachelor’s degree agriculture students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in Oregon

#1

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$20,016 Average Net Price

$37,028 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Oregon State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Oregon State University is a large public school situated in Corvallis, Oregon. It awarded 89 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Oregon State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Oregon State is $20,016 for Oregon Bachelor’s Degree Agriculture students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full Oregon State General Agriculture Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s 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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