2022 Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 the Rocky Mountains 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 108 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,300 and $19,709 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,111 and $23,874 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general agriculture programs, but they also 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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Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

Southern Utah University

Cedar City, Utah

#1 in overall quality

$14,285 Average Net Price

$36,848 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Utah University landed the #1 spot on the list. Cedar City, Utah is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s agriculture degrees to 23 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Southern Utah University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. It costs about $14,285 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree agriculture students per year to attend Southern Utah University.

Read more about General Agriculture at Southern Utah University

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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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