2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Southeast Region
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Agricultural Engineering is the 330th most popular major in the country with 1,564 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southeast region, there were 242 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 179 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in agricultural engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great agricultural engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the agricultural engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree ae students.
Top 8 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Southeast Region
Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University landed the #1 spot on the list. Florida A&M University is located in Tallahassee, Florida and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s AE degrees to qualified students.
Florida A&M University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $15,060 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree AE students per year to attend Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 49 degrees to qualified bachelors’s AE students in 2019-2020.
NC State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $16,458 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree AE students per year to attend NC State.
The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina A & T State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Located in Greensboro, North Carolina, this fairly large public school handed out 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s AE students in 2019-2020.
NC A&T did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #8 on our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $10,274 for southeast region bachelor’s degree ae students per year to attend North Carolina A & T State University.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 54 bachelors’s AE degrees to qualified students.
Virginia Tech not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $21,198 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree AE students per year to attend Virginia Tech.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Athens, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s AE degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.
UGA also took the #4 spot in our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $13,649 for southeast region bachelor’s degree ae students per year to attend UGA.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low student loan default rate of 2.5% 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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The University of Tennessee - Knoxville landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. This large school is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s AE degrees in 2019-2020.
UT Knoxville also took the #5 spot in our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $18,825 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree AE students per year to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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University of Kentucky ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, this large public school awarded 24 degrees to qualified bachelors’s AE students in 2019-2020.
UK also made our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #6. The yearly cost to attend UK is $17,127 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree AE students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
With a ranking of #8, Clemson University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Clemson is a large public school situated in Clemson, South Carolina. It awarded 22 bachelors’s AE degrees in 2019-2020.
Clemson also took the #3 spot in our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Clemson University is $20,008 for southeast region bachelor’s degree ae students.
The student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, 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%.
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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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