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2022 Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s

5 Ranked Colleges
98 Degrees Awarded
$21,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor's

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s” 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 329th most popular in the United States. 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.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 98 international agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in international agriculture. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality international agriculture programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the international agriculture program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Agriculture

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. This large school is located in Ames, Iowa, and it awarded 52 bachelors’s international ag degrees in 2019-2020.

Iowa State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best International Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $15,496 for bachelor’s degree international ag students per year to attend Iowa State University.

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%.

Full Iowa State University International Agriculture Report

#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Utah State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Logan, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s international ag degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

USU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best International Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for USU is $13,634 for bachelor’s degree international ag students.

Read more about International Agriculture at Utah State University

#3

Dordt University

Sioux Center, Iowa
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dordt University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Dordt is located in Sioux Center, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s international ag degrees to qualified students.

Dordt also took the #4 spot in our “Best International Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Dordt is $25,102 for Bachelor’s Degree International Ag students.

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%.

Full Dordt University International Agriculture Report

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Davis landed the #4 spot on the list. UC Davis is a public institution located in Davis, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UC Davis did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best International Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for UC Davis is $14,669 for bachelor’s degree international ag students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Read more about International Agriculture at UC Davis

#5

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cornell University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s. Ithaca, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s international ag degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

Cornell not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best International Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Cornell University is $40,126 for bachelor’s degree international ag students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about International Agriculture at Cornell

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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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