2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in Georgia

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Georgia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Georgia, there were 17 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,491 and $29,433 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Georgia” ranking, we looked at 2 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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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Georgia

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in Georgia

1

Emmanuel College
Franklin Springs, Georgia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Emmanuel College landed the #1 spot on the list. Emmanuel College is a small school located in Franklin Springs, Georgia that handed out 3 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Georgia. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school handed out 14 degrees 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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 Georgia

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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

• *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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