2022 Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

International Agriculture is the 329th most popular major in the country with 164 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, international agriculture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,400 and had an average of $18,123 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 54 international agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,400 and $26,640 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 53 international agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Agriculture in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$15,496 Average Net Price

$23,113 Average Early-Career Earnings

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 Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Iowa State is a large public school situated in Ames, Iowa. It awarded 52 bachelors’s international ag degrees in 2019-2020.

Iowa State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best International Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Iowa State University is $15,496 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree International Ag students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Iowa State University International Agriculture Report

#2

Dordt University

Sioux Center, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

$25,102 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Dordt University landed the #2 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 ag degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Dordt also took the #2 spot in our “Best International Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $25,102 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree International Ag students with aid per year to attend Dordt.

The low student loan default rate of 1.8% 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 Dordt

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Agriculture (With Aid)

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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