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.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Agricultural Production Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 222 bachelor's degrees in agricultural production to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Agricultural Production School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The agricultural production bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality agricultural production program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on agricultural production students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other agricultural production students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for agricultural production to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
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.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Agricultural Production Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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It's hard to beat Clemson University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in agricultural production. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Clemson, Clemson is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the agricultural production program make an average of $30,825 in their early career salary.
It's difficult to beat University of Kentucky if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in agricultural production. Located in the large city of Lexington, UK is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the agricultural production program state that they receive average early career wages of $35,167.
Located in the distant town of Richmond, Eastern is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Agricultural Production bachelor's degree recipients from Eastern Kentucky University receive an earnings boost of about $3,103 over the typical 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).