2025 Best Agricultural Economics Doctor's Degree Schools
2Colleges in the United States
46Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in agricultural economics is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #186 out of 862 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Agricultural Economics Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 46 doctor's degrees in agricultural economics during the <nil> academic year.
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Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to agricultural economics students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other agricultural economics students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized agricultural economics related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for agricultural economics students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Agricultural Economics Doctor's Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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One of 6 majors within the Agricultural Economics & Business area of study, Agricultural Economics has other similar majors worth exploring.
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Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).