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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Iowa, there were 30 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,922 and $25,876 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general agriculture program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. 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 Iowa” 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 Iowa

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

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

#1

Dordt University

Sioux Center, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$25,102 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Dordt University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Sioux Center, Iowa, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2019-2020.

Dordt also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. It costs about $25,102 for Iowa Bachelor’s Degree Agriculture students per year to attend Dordt University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Agriculture at Dordt

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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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