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 Illinois” 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 Illinois, there were 312 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,252 and $18,083 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 258 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in general agriculture. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general agriculture program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Illinois” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Illinois”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Illinois University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Illinois list. This medium-sized school is located in Macomb, Illinois, and it awarded 75 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Normal, Illinois, and it awarded 172 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #3 spot on the list. SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s agriculture degrees to qualified students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eureka College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Illinois list. Eureka, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s agriculture degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #4 spot on the list. Champaign, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s agriculture degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%.
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