by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
International Agriculture is the 926th most popular major in the country with 122 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 50 international agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 international agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in international agriculture. That schools that top this list have a program in international agriculture in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 International Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree international agriculture students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of the Ozarks. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region. Hard Work U is a small school located in Point Lookout, Missouri that handed out 3 bachelors’s international agriculture degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on International Agriculture at Hard Work U
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region list. Iowa State is located in Ames, Iowa and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 45 bachelors’s international agriculture degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Agriculture Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Dordt University landed the #3 spot on the list. Sioux Center, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s international agriculture degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%.
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