2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Louisiana

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Louisiana” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Louisiana, there were 78 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,681 and $24,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 78 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,566 and $28,067 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Louisiana” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Louisiana

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

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

1

McNeese State University
Lake Charles, Louisiana

#9 overall quality in Louisiana

$30,681 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend McNeese State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Louisiana list. Located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, this medium-sized public school handed out 58 degrees to qualified bachelors’s agriculture students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Agriculture at McNeese

2

Southern University and A & M College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#23 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern University and A & M College landed the #2 spot on the list. Southern University and A & M College is a public institution located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Southern University and A & M College General Agriculture Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Agriculture in the Southeast Region
• 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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