Agricultural Public Servicesmaster's programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #218 out of the 343 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Agricultural Public Services Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 30 master's degrees in agricultural public services during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master'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 public services students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of agricultural public services students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
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 public services to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
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 schools for agricultural public services students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Agricultural Public Services Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Iowa State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in agricultural public services. Iowa State is a very large public university located in the small city of Ames.
Students who graduate with their master's from the agricultural public services program state that they receive average early career wages of $57,323.
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).
