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Highest ROI Agriculture & Food Science Majors

Top 50 Agriculture & Food Science college majors by ROI percentile

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 Western Michigan Paper Science and Engineering $101,344 98 100% 10 83% —
2 U. of Maryland, College Park Agricultural and Biological Engineering $99,642 96 97% 16 45% 1470
3 U. of Kentucky Agricultural and Biological Engineering $98,090 96 96% 14 90% 1180
4 U. of Georgia Biological Systems Engineering $94,410 95 100% 41 30% 1380
5 Kansas State Agricultural and Food Products Processing $93,090 95 97% 19 95% 1160
6 South Dakota State Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering $83,782 93 100% 13 85% 1150
7 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Bioprocess Engineering $83,640 93 — 20 65% —
8 Oklahoma State Agricultural and Biological Engineering $88,338 93 96% 21 68% 1150
9 Rutgers University - New Brunswick Agricultural and Biological Engineering $88,137 93 100% 17 68% 1410
10 Kansas State Agricultural and Biological Engineering $88,529 92 100% 19 95% 1160
11 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Agricultural and Consumer Economics $91,044 92 96% 213 37% 1460
12 Clemson Agricultural and Biological Engineering $91,294 92 100% 17 42% 1330
13 North Carolina State Biological and Agricultural Engineering $87,663 91 97% 35 40% 1380
14 Texas Tech Agricultural Economics $83,267 91 96% 59 69% 1190
15 Texas Tech Agricultural and Applied Economics $83,267 91 96% 33 69% 1190
16 Purdue Agricultural and Biological Engineering $86,975 91 100% 97 43% 1350
17 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Agribusiness $84,104 91 95% 160 30% 1330
18 Kansas State Agricultural Mechanization $85,441 91 96% 15 95% 1160
19 U. of Massachusetts - Amherst Veterinary and Animal Sciences $86,776 91 100% 68 60% 1410
20 U. of Arkansas Food Science $86,510 91 100% 18 75% 1130
21 North Dakota State Crop and Weed Sciences $80,404 90 98% 20 92% —
22 North Dakota State Sustainable Agriculture $80,404 90 98% 11 92% —
23 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Agricultural and Biological Engineering $88,581 90 95% 71 37% 1460
24 U. of Arkansas Biological Engineering $86,106 90 100% 23 75% 1130
25 Brigham Young Food Science $75,203 90 67% 16 69% 1360
26 U. of Tennessee, Knoxville Food Science $85,687 90 97% 16 48% 1290
27 U. of Minnesota - Twin Cities Agricultural and Biological Engineering $85,582 89 100% 22 65% 1400
28 North Dakota State Agricultural Economics $78,513 89 100% 27 92% —
29 South Dakota State Agricultural Systems Technology $77,562 89 100% 21 85% 1150
30 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Agricultural and Biological Engineering $81,190 89 100% 22 30% 1330
31 U. of Georgia Food Science $82,221 89 100% 11 30% 1380
32 U. of Nebraska, Lincoln Agricultural Mechanization $82,361 89 92% 14 80% 1210
33 Texas A&M University - College Station Biological and Agricultural Engineering $85,116 88 92% 39 52% 1280
34 Mississippi State Animal and Dairy Sciences $82,132 88 94% 78 84% 1120
35 Mississippi State Poultry Science $82,132 88 94% 10 84% 1120
36 Cornell Biological Engineering $96,123 88 — 34 8% 1520
37 Iowa State Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering $82,062 88 98% 43 85% 1240
38 San Jose State Environmental Science $74,572 88 88% 36 80% 1140
39 Virginia Tech Biological Systems Engineering $81,085 87 97% 45 55% 1360
40 Fresno State Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management $73,169 87 98% 61 65% —
41 Brigham Young Landscape Management $70,783 87 84% 21 69% 1360
42 Pennsylvania State Agricultural and Biological Engineering $83,541 87 95% 17 55% 1350
43 U. of Georgia Forestry $79,603 87 96% 19 30% 1380
44 U. of Georgia Nutritional Sciences $79,427 87 93% 87 30% 1380
45 U. of California, Davis Biological Systems Engineering $84,939 87 — 24 46% —
46 Iowa State Agricultural Mechanization $79,652 86 98% 27 85% 1240
47 Sam Houston State Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations $74,151 86 92% 28 97% 1030
48 U. of Minnesota - Twin Cities Agricultural Business and Management $81,217 86 95% 40 65% 1400
49 Sam Houston State Agricultural Mechanization $73,862 86 94% 17 97% 1030
50 South Dakota State Agronomy and Crop Science $73,259 86 95% 36 85% 1150