2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in Washington

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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 Washington, there were 1,102 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,632 and $16,227 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 63 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,852 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Washington” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Washington

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Washington”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in Washington

1

Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

#3 overall quality in Washington

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington State University is a public institution located in Pullman, Washington. The school has a large population, and it awarded 60 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#1 overall quality in Washington

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Washington list. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s agriculture and agriculture operations students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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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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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