by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
General Agriculture is the 157th most popular major in the country with 3,370 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general agriculture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,894 and had an average of $20,543 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 436 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,084 and $15,913 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 286 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in general agriculture. That schools that top this list have a program in general agriculture in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Illinois University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region. Macomb, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s agriculture degrees to 75 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Illinois State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region. Illinois State is located in Normal, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 172 bachelors’s agriculture degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - River Falls landed the #3 spot on the list. UW - River Falls is a medium-sized public school situated in River Falls, Wisconsin. It awarded 8 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #4 spot on the list. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a fairly large public school situated in Carbondale, Illinois. It awarded 11 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #5 spot on the list. Purdue University - Main Campus is a large school located in West Lafayette, Indiana that handed out 19 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2020-2021.
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 undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.
Andrews University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Berrien Springs, Michigan is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s agriculture degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s agriculture students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Agriculture at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eureka College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Eureka College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Eureka, Illinois. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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