If you plan on getting your associate degree in agricultural production, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #86 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 reviewed 14 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of agricultural production. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,167 associate degrees in agricultural production during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Agricultural Production School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of agricultural production for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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 associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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 production students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other agricultural production students want to attend this school to pursue a associate 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.
Student Debt - How much debt agricultural production 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 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 associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Agricultural Production Associate Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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North Carolina State University is a wonderful choice for students interested in an associate degree in agricultural production. NC State is a very large public university located in the large city of Raleigh.
Associate students who receive their degree from the agricultural production program make an average of $35,198 for their early career.
Any student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in agricultural production has to check out Virginia Tech. Located in the small city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public school with a fairly large student population.
Agricultural Production associate degree recipients from Virginia Tech get an earnings boost of about $2,829 over the average earnings of agricultural production majors.
Every student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in agricultural production has to look into Kirkwood Community College. Located in the midsize city of Cedar Rapids, Kirkwood Community College is a public college with a large student population.
Associate recipients from the agricultural production major at Kirkwood Community College make $9,138 above the typical college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
Located in the town of Mitchell, Mitchell Tech is a public college with a small student population.
Those agricultural production students who get their associate degree from Mitchell Technical College receive $7,617 more than the average agricultural production graduate.
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).