an associate degree in agriculture & agriculture operations is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #13 out of 38 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Nebraska to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of agriculture & agriculture operations. Combined, these schools handed out 328 associate degrees in agriculture & agriculture operations to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate 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 agriculture & agriculture operations students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other agriculture & agriculture operations 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.
Student Debt - How much debt agriculture & agriculture operations students go into to obtain their associate 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 agriculture & agriculture operations related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for agriculture & agriculture operations students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Associate Degree Schools in Nebraska ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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