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

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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 Maryland, there were 327 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,089 and $20,608 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,303 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Maryland” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Maryland

The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland master’s degree agriculture & agriculture operations students.

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

1

University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Princess Anne, Maryland

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland Eastern Shore landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Princess Anne, Maryland, this small public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s agriculture and agriculture operations students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Agriculture & Agriculture Operations at University of Maryland Eastern Shore

2

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, Maryland

#2 overall quality in Maryland

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maryland - College Park. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Maryland. College Park, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations at UMCP

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations

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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