2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on AE Major in the Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 263 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,075 and $18,578 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on AE Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on AE Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree ae students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, Maryland

#11 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maryland - College Park. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on AE Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. UMCP is a large school located in College Park, Maryland that handed out 12 doctorate’s AE degrees 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 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at University of Maryland - College Park

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Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

#5 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on AE Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This large school is located in Ithaca, New York, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s AE degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

Full Cornell Agricultural Engineering Report

• Most Focused Doctor’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.