General Agriculture is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #130 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Agriculture Bachelor's Degree Schools in Virginia ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 47 bachelor's degrees in general agriculture during the 2020-2021 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general agriculture students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general agriculture students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt general agriculture students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general agriculture related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general agriculture students working on their bachelor's degree.
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 Best General Agriculture Bachelor's Degree Schools in Virginia list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Agriculture in Virginia
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for general agriculture students seeking a a bachelor's degree.
Top Virginia Schools for a Bachelor's in Agriculture
Virginia State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in general agriculture. Located in the suburb of Petersburg, Virginia State is a public university with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the agriculture program state that they receive average early career income of $26,147.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).