If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in general agriculture, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #130 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of general agriculture. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 37 bachelor's degrees in general agriculture during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor'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 general agriculture students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general agriculture 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 much debt general agriculture students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 general agriculture related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general agriculture 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 General Agriculture Bachelor's Degree Schools in Florida ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in general agriculture. Located in the midsize city of Tallahassee, Florida A&M University is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.
After graduating, agriculture bachelor's recipients generally make around $26,677 at the beginning of their careers.
It's difficult to beat Warner University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in general agriculture. Located in the rural area of Lake Wales, Warner University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
General Agriculture bachelor's degree recipients from Warner University get an earnings boost of around $8,739 over the typical earnings of general agriculture graduates.
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).
