2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 1,472 people earned their degree in agricultural engineering, making the major the 204th most popular in the United States. 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 Southwest region, there were 81 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,187 and $20,270 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 65 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agricultural engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their agricultural engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

$59,850 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,540 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this large public school handed out 20 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s AE students in 2020-2021.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Oklahoma State University - Main Campus Agricultural Engineering Report

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Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, Texas

#7 overall quality in Southwest

$60,523 Average Early-Career Earnings

$18,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on AE Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in College Station, Texas, and it awarded 45 bachelors’s AE degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%. 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 College Station

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering

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

• *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.