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2023 Best Value Agricultural Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$31,810 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$60,187 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Agricultural Engineering School for You

Agricultural Engineering is the #203 most popular major in the country with 332 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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 Agricultural Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Southwest Region to see which ones offered the best value programs for AE 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Agricultural Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Agricultural Engineering Colleges.

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Agricultural Engineering

Our analysis found Texas A&M University - College Station to be the best value school for agricultural engineering students who want to pursue a degree in the Southwest Region . Texas A&M College Station is a very large public school located in the city of College Station.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Texas A&M College Station are $38,855 a year.

Texas A&M College Station also made our Best Agricultural Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region list, coming in at #5.

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Out of the 2 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the town of Stillwater, OSU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

OSU undergraduate students pay an average of $24,764 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, OSU also is in the top 20% of our Best Agricultural Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.

Read full report on Agricultural Engineering at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

Best Agricultural Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best agricultural engineering colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 14
Arizona 0
Oklahoma 2

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One of 39 majors within the area of study, agricultural engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to AE

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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