2023 Best Value Agriculture Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations School for You

With 326 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, agriculture and agriculture operations is the #20 most popular major in Illinois.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Agriculture Schools in Illinois ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Illinois to see which ones offered the best value programs for agriculture and agriculture operations students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Colleges.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality in Agriculture

Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Degrees Awarded
Indiana	180
Ohio	248
Wisconsin	167
Michigan	212

Majors Related to Agriculture & Agriculture Operations

Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Plant Sciences	912
Food Science Technology	692
Animal Science	596
Agricultural Economics & Business	410
General Agriculture	353
Agricultural Public Services	179
Agricultural Production	163
Soil Sciences	158
Other Agriculture	104
International Agriculture	46
Horticulture	15
Animal Services	8
Food Processing	2

Majors Similar to Agriculture & Agriculture Operations

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Engineering	61,791
Computer & Information Sciences	60,971
Biological & Biomedical Sciences	28,851
Mathematics & Statistics	15,127
Physical Sciences	12,705

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

• 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).
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More about our data sources and methodologies.