You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Master's Degree in agricultural public services. It is ranked #218 out of 343 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual looked at 9 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Agricultural Public Services Master's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 199 master's degrees in agricultural public services during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Agricultural Public Services School for Your Master's Degree
The agricultural public services master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 public services students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other agricultural public services students want to attend this school to pursue a master's 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 public services students go into to obtain their master'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 public services related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for agricultural public services students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Agricultural Public Services Schools
The agricultural public services 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 Public Services Master's Degree Schools.
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Any student who is interested in a master's degree in agricultural public services has to take a look at University of Georgia. Located in the city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the agricultural public services program report average early career wages of $52,665.
It's difficult to beat Iowa State University if you want to pursue a master's degree in agricultural public services. Located in the city of Ames, Iowa State is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Agricultural Public Services master's degree recipients from Iowa State University earn a boost of approximately $3,944 over the typical earnings of agricultural public services graduates.
Located in the medium-sized city of Knoxville, UT Knoxville is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the agricultural public services program state that they receive average early career earnings of $54,313.
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).