2022 Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 a Bachelor’s in Connecticut” 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 Connecticut, there were 7 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,552 and $24,636 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general agriculture programs that also have a lower cost than 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut

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

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

#1

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$22,012 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Connecticut is a public institution located in Storrs, Connecticut. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UCONN did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Connecticut is $22,012 for connecticut bachelor’s degree agriculture students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%.

Full UCONN General Agriculture Report

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• 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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