2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agronomy & Crop Science in California

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Agronomy & Crop Science is the 393rd most popular major in the country with 1,192 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 65 agronomy and crop science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 65 agronomy and crop science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agronomy and crop science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Agronomy and Crop Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agronomy and Crop Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in California.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agronomy & Crop Science in California

#1

California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo, California

#1 in overall quality

$21,595 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Agronomy and Crop Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in California that were part of this year’s ranking, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in San Luis Obispo, California, and it awarded 65 bachelors’s agronomy and crop science degrees in 2019-2020.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agronomy & Crop Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list. It costs about $21,595 for California Bachelor’s Degree Agronomy and Crop Science students per year to attend California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Agronomy & Crop Science at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

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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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