2023 Most Focused Colleges for General Agriculture in the New England Region
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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 the New England region, there were 13 general agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree 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 Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region agriculture students.
Top 4 Most Focused Colleges for General Agriculture in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hampshire College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the New England Region. Hampshire is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 ’s agriculture degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on General Agriculture at Hampshire
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools 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. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s agriculture degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Agriculture at UCONN
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the New England Region list. UVM is a public institution located in Burlington, Vermont. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UVM General Agriculture Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Presque Isle. The school came in at #4 for the Schools Highly Focused on Agriculture Major in the New England Region. UMPI is a small school located in Presque Isle, Maine that handed out 0 ’s agriculture degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about General Agriculture at University of Maine at Presque Isle
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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
- *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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