2024 Best General Agriculture Schools in California
3Colleges in California
222Agriculture Degrees Awarded
$47,178Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in general agriculture, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #157 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Agriculture Schools in California ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 222 degrees in general agriculture during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of general agriculture school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general agriculture schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The agriculture school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Agriculture Schools in California.
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Best Schools for General Agriculture in California
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the agriculture degree levels they offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in general agriculture needs to check out California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a very large public university located in the suburb of San Luis Obispo. A Best Colleges rank of #95 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a great university overall.
There were approximately 52 general agriculture students who graduated with this degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the agriculture program report average early career income of $47,178.
California State University - Chico is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in general agriculture. Chico State is a large public university located in the city of Chico. This university ranks 79th out of 168 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 70 general agriculture students who graduated with this degree at Chico State in the most recent data year.
California State Polytechnic University - Pomona is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in general agriculture. Located in the suburb of Pomona, Cal Poly Pomona is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 65th out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 38 general agriculture students who graduated with this degree at Cal Poly Pomona in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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Your choice of general agriculture school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general agriculture schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
