2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in Alabama

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Alabama” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Agriculture & Agriculture Operations is the 21st most popular major in the country with 49,899 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, agriculture and agriculture operations graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $37,342 and had an average of $19,867 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alabama, there were 727 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,278 and $23,191 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 42 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,592 and $21,124 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Alabama” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agriculture and agriculture operations. That schools that top this list have a program in agriculture and agriculture operations in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Alabama

The colleges and universities below are the best for alabama associate degree agriculture & agriculture operations students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in Alabama

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Wallace State Community College, Hanceville
Hanceville, Alabama

#17 overall quality in Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wallace State Community College, Hanceville. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Alabama list. Located in Hanceville, Alabama, this medium-sized public school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified associates’s agriculture and agriculture operations students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Agriculture & Agriculture Operations at Wallace State Community College, Hanceville

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Coastal Alabama Community College
Bay Minette, Alabama

#18 overall quality in Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Coastal Alabama Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Alabama list. Coastal Alabama Community College is located in Bay Minette, Alabama and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 associates’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees to qualified students.

Full Coastal Alabama Community College Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in the Southeast Region
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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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