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2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

6 Ranked Colleges
409 Degrees Awarded
$57,639 Avg Salary
Schools for a Bachelor's Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Agricultural Engineering is the 204th most popular major in the country with 1,472 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, agricultural engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $57,068 and had an average of $23,086 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 526 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,639 and $22,958 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 409 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agricultural engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in agricultural engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 6 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

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Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Ohio State is a large school located in Columbus, Ohio that handed out 116 bachelors’s AE degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, 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.

Full Ohio State University - Main Campus Agricultural Engineering Report

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school awarded 103 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s AE students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at UIUC

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Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, Indiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region. This large school is located in West Lafayette, Indiana, and it awarded 72 bachelors’s AE degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Agricultural Engineering at Purdue University - Main Campus

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - River Falls. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region. River Falls, Wisconsin is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s AE degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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%.

Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at University of Wisconsin - River Falls

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Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan State University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s AE degrees to 50 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.

Read more about Agricultural Engineering at Michigan State

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University of Wisconsin - Madison did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #6. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s AE degrees to 60 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UW - Madison Agricultural Engineering Report

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