2022 Best Value International Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value International Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 164 people earned their degree in international agriculture, making the major the 905th most popular in the United States.

Across Iowa, there were 53 international agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 53 international agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,922 and $25,876 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value International Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in international agriculture. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great international agriculture programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the international agriculture program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value International Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Agriculture in Iowa

#1

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$15,496 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Iowa State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value International Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa. Iowa State University is a large school located in Ames, Iowa that handed out 52 bachelors’s international agriculture degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Iowa State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best International Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Iowa State is $15,496 for Iowa Bachelor’s Degree International Agriculture students.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 3.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about International Agriculture at Iowa State

#2

Dordt University

Sioux Center, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

$25,102 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dordt University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value International Agriculture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa. Dordt is a small school located in Sioux Center, Iowa that handed out 1 bachelors’s international agriculture degrees in 2019-2020.

Dordt also took the #2 spot in our “Best International Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Dordt is $25,102 for Iowa Bachelor’s Degree International Agriculture students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Dordt International Agriculture Report

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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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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