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2022 Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
117 Degrees Awarded
$8,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor's in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Agricultural Engineering is the 330th most popular major in the country with 1,564 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maryland, there were 117 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 117 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,371 and $23,982 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agricultural engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agricultural engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in Maryland

#1

University of Maryland - College Park

College Park, Maryland
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k list. This large school is located in College Park, Maryland, and it awarded 117 bachelors’s AE degrees in 2019-2020.

UMCP did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maryland - College Park is $8,054 for maryland bachelor’s degree ae students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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