an associate degree in agricultural production is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #86 out of 328 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.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Agricultural Production Associate Degree Schools in Wisconsin ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 56 associate degrees in agricultural production to qualified students.
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Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 complete 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 in Wisconsin ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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It is difficult to beat Northcentral Technical College if you wish to pursue an associate degree in agricultural production. North Central Technical College is a moderately-sized public college located in the city of Wausau.
After graduating, agricultural production associate recipients typically make around $28,132 at the beginning of their careers.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team