General Agriculture is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #130 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for general agriculture students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 67 bachelor's degrees in general agriculture to qualified students.
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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 bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools 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 North Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in general agriculture has to check out North Carolina State University. Located in the city of Raleigh, NC State is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the general agriculture degree program at North Carolina State University get $4,392 above the average graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in general agriculture has to take a look at North Carolina A & T State University. Located in the city of Greensboro, NC A&T is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Soon after graduating, agriculture bachelor's recipients usually earn about $32,301 in the first five 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).
