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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Vermont, there were 5 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The agriculture school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont”.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont.

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

#1

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

#1 in overall quality

$18,982 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont list. This fairly large school is located in Burlington, Vermont, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2019-2020.

UVM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list. The estimated yearly cost for UVM is $18,982 for vermont bachelor’s degree agriculture students.

The low student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on General Agriculture at UVM

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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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