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

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Georgia” 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 Georgia, there were 1,076 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,372 and $21,300 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 121 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Georgia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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.

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

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

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

1

Fort Valley State University
Fort Valley, Georgia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Fort Valley State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Fort Valley, Georgia, and it awarded 7 masters’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations at Fort Valley State University

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University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in Georgia list. Athens, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees to 114 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Georgia Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Report

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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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