2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in the New England Region

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In 2020-2021, 3,370 people earned their degree in general agriculture, making the major the 157th most popular in the United States. 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 New England region, there were 13 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general agriculture. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general agriculture.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the New England Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in the New England Region

1

Hampshire College
Amherst, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hampshire College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the New England Region list. Located in Amherst, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s agriculture students in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Agriculture at Hampshire College

2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Top 25% overall quality in New England

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Connecticut is a large school located in Storrs, Connecticut that handed out 10 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 93%.

Full UCONN General Agriculture Report

3

University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the New England Region list. Burlington, Vermont is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s agriculture degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.

Read more about General Agriculture at University of Vermont

4

University of Maine at Presque Isle
Presque Isle, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine at Presque Isle. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the New England Region list. UMPI is located in Presque Isle, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s agriculture degrees to qualified students.

Full University of Maine at Presque Isle General Agriculture Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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