2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in Virginia

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Virginia, there were 64 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,900 and $22,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in Virginia” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia master’s degree ae students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in Virginia

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$30,547 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value AE Schools for a Master’s in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #1 spot on the list. Blacksburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s AE degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

Virginia Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Virginia Tech are $30,547, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Virginia Tech 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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