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2022 Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k

7 Ranked Colleges
472 Degrees Awarded
$29,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agriculture & Agriculture Operations is the 23rd most popular major in the country with 51,300 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, agriculture and agriculture operations graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $34,886 and had an average of $19,085 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 8,378 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,108 and $17,531 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 472 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in agriculture and agriculture operations. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agriculture and agriculture operations programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the agriculture and agriculture operations program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 7 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations (Income $30-$48k) in the Great Lakes Region

#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k. UW - Madison is a public institution located in Madison, Wisconsin. The school has a large population, and it awarded 33 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region master’s degree agriculture & agriculture operations students whose families make $30-$48k list, UW - Madison has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UW - Madison are $25,523, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Purdue is a large school located in West Lafayette, Indiana that handed out 94 masters’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees in 2019-2020.

Purdue also took the #2 spot in our “Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue are $28,794, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Purdue University - Main Campus Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Report

#4 in overall quality

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 #3 for the Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a large school located in Champaign, Illinois that handed out 106 masters’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region master’s degree agriculture & agriculture operations students whose families make $30-$48k list, UIUC has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are $30,083, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#5 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #4 spot on the list. Ohio State University - Main Campus is located in Columbus, Ohio and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 82 masters’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees to qualified students.

Ohio State also took the #5 spot in our “Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ohio State University - Main Campus are $37,141, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#5

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan State University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Michigan State University is a public institution located in East Lansing, Michigan. The school has a large population, and it awarded 79 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Michigan State also made our “Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan State are $37,056.

Read more about Agriculture & Agriculture Operations at Michigan State

#6

Illinois State University

Normal, Illinois

Illinois State University landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k ranking. Illinois State University is a public institution located in Normal, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Illinois State also made our “Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #0. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Illinois State are $11,069.

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#6 in overall quality

Southern Illinois University Carbondale came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k ranking. Carbondale, Illinois is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

SIUC also took the #6 spot in our “Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at SIUC are $32,928, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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