2022 Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Agricultural Engineering is the 203rd most popular major in the country with 1,564 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, agricultural engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $55,175 and had an average of $22,449 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maryland, there were 117 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,300 and $21,172 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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The ae school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland”.

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Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland

The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland bachelor’s degree ae students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in Maryland

#1

University of Maryland - College Park

College Park, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$19,045 Average Net Price

$59,937 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value AE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the #1 spot on the list. College Park, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s AE degrees to 117 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMCP, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. It costs about $19,045 for maryland bachelor’s degree ae students per year to attend UMCP.

With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. 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%.

Full University of Maryland - College Park 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

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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