When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in agricultural production sits in the middle of the road, ranking #181 out of 363 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for agricultural production students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 87 bachelor's degrees in agricultural production during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's 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 production students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of agricultural production students who choose to seek a bachelor's 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 production students go into to obtain their bachelor's 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 production related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for agricultural production students working on their bachelor's degree.
The agricultural production 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 Production Bachelor's Degree Schools in Kentucky.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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University of Kentucky is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in agricultural production. UK is a fairly large public university located in the city of Lexington.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the agricultural production program report average early career wages of $35,167.
Eastern Kentucky University is a good choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in agricultural production. Eastern is a fairly large public university located in the town of Richmond.
Agricultural Production bachelor's degree recipients from Eastern Kentucky University earn a boost of around $2,440 over the average earnings of agricultural production majors.
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).
