Agricultural Public Services is about average in terms of popularity for bachelor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #186 out of the 363 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual reviewed 6 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of agricultural public services. Combined, these schools handed out 119 bachelor's degrees in agricultural public services to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Agricultural Public Services School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The agricultural public services bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality agricultural public services program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
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 take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 - How many other agricultural public services 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 public services 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 public services related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for agricultural public services students working on their bachelor'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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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University of Arkansas is a wonderful choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in agricultural public services. UARK is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Fayetteville.
Those agricultural public services students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Arkansas receive $7,476 more than the standard agricultural public services student.
University of Kentucky is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in agricultural public services. Located in the city of Lexington, UK is a public university with a very large student population.
Soon after graduating, agricultural public services bachelor's recipients generally earn around $34,495 in their early careers.
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in agricultural public services has to check out The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. UT Knoxville is a very large public university located in the city of Knoxville.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the agricultural public services program make around $43,324 in the first couple years of their career.
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).