2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Southwest Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 1,472 people earned their degree in agricultural engineering, making the major the 341st most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 81 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 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 Master’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree ae students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M College Station is a large public school situated in College Station, Texas. It awarded 4 masters’s AE degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, 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.
Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University - College Station
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. OSU is a large school located in Stillwater, Oklahoma that handed out 22 masters’s AE degrees 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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at OSU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Arizona is located in Tucson, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s AE degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Agricultural Engineering at University of Arizona
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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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