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. 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 Virginia” 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 Virginia, there were 75 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,834 and $26,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 47 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Virginia” ranking looked at 3 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Virginia” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia bachelor’s degree agriculture students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ferrum College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Virginia list. Ferrum College is located in Ferrum, Virginia and, has a small 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 Virginia State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Virginia list. Virginia State University is a small school located in Petersburg, Virginia that handed out 20 bachelors’s agriculture degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #3 spot on the list. Blacksburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s agriculture degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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