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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Utah” 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 Utah, there were 485 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,119 and $17,216 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,613 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Utah” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agriculture and agriculture operations. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their agriculture and agriculture operations program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

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

1

Utah State University
Logan, Utah

#5 overall quality in Utah

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Utah State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Utah list. USU is a large school located in Logan, Utah that handed out 28 masters’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

Full USU Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Report

2

Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, Utah

#1 overall quality in Utah

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Provo landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Provo, Utah, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 5 degrees to qualified masters’s agriculture and agriculture operations students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Agriculture & Agriculture Operations at Brigham Young University - Provo

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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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