If you plan on getting your associate degree in agricultural economics & business, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #71 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Agricultural Economics & Business Associate Degree Schools in South Dakota ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 126 associate degrees in agricultural economics & business to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 & business students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of agricultural economics & business students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
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.
Student Debt - How much debt agricultural economics & business students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized agricultural economics & business related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for agricultural economics & business students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Agricultural Economics & Business Schools
The agricultural business school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Agricultural Economics & Business Associate Degree Schools in South Dakota.
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It's hard to beat Lake Area Technical Institute if you want to pursue an associate degree in agricultural economics & business. LATI is a small public school located in the remote town of Watertown.
Students who graduate with their associate from the agricultural business program state that they receive average early career earnings of $41,340.
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).
