2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in Pennsylvania

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Doctorate in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,564 people earned their degree in agricultural engineering, making the major the 203rd most popular in the United States. 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 Pennsylvania, there were 0 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,400 and $27,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agricultural engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value AE Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value AE Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in Pennsylvania

#1

Pennsylvania State University - University Park

University Park, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$38,728 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pennsylvania State University - University Park. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value AE Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania.

Penn State University Park did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Penn State University Park are $38,728, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at Pennsylvania State University - University Park

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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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