2025 Best Agriculture Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
2Colleges in the Plains States Region
120Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in agriculture, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #134 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for agriculture students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 120 associate degrees in agriculture during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to agriculture students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other agriculture students want to attend this school to pursue a associate 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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized agriculture related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for agriculture students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Agriculture Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Notes and References
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
