2022 Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 38 international agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $9,605 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 international agriculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great international agriculture programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the international agriculture program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Agriculture in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

#1 in overall quality

$40,126 Average Net Price

$31,839 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value International Ag Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #1 spot on the list. Cornell is a large school located in Ithaca, New York that handed out 20 bachelors’s international ag degrees in 2019-2020.

Cornell did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best International Agriculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Cornell is $40,126 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree International Ag students.

With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its 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%. 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.

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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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