2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in Illinois

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 49,899 people earned their degree in agriculture and agriculture operations, making the major the 21st most popular in the United States. 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 Illinois, there were 2,214 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,410 and $17,900 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 173 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $81,698 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Illinois” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in agriculture and agriculture operations. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in agriculture and agriculture operations.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Illinois”.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in Illinois

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois

#3 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Illinois list. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school handed out 168 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s agriculture and agriculture operations students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Agriculture & Agriculture Operations at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, Illinois

#8 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Illinois list. Illinois Institute of Technology is a medium-sized school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 2 doctorate’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Illinois list. Located in Carbondale, Illinois, this fairly large public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified doctorate’s agriculture and agriculture operations students in 2020-2021.

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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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