2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Agronomy & Crop Science is the 405th most popular major in the country with 1,153 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 165 agronomy and crop science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 agronomy and crop science graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agronomy and crop science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in agronomy and crop science.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agronomy & Crop Science in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is located in Champaign, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 25 masters’s agronomy and crop science degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

Read full report on Agronomy & Crop Science at UIUC

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University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agronomy and Crop Science Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Madison, Wisconsin, this large public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s agronomy and crop science students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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 UW - Madison Agronomy & Crop Science Report

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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