2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Agricultural Engineering is the 341st most popular major in the country with 1,472 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 81 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 65 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agricultural engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in agricultural engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this large public school awarded 20 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s AE students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Agricultural Engineering at OSU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M College Station is a public institution located in College Station, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 45 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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 Texas A&M College Station Agricultural Engineering 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
- *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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