Bachelor's · earnings grade

Is a Agricultural Business and Management degree worth it?

Graduates earn a median $45,149 two years after finishing, more than 59% of bachelor's majors. Measured across 137 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.

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The verdict on the money

It pays around the middle. What you earn will depend more on where you study and what you do with it than on the subject label.

Median earnings $45,149 2 years after finishing · per graduate
Typical range $38,289–$46,087 middle half of US programmes
Over no degree +$5,629 vs $39,520 high-school median
Graduates a year 4,791 137 programmes

Where a Agricultural Business and Management degree pays best US programmes ranked on their own graduates' median earnings two years out.

#University1 yr out2 yrs out3 yrs outGraduates/yr
1 Cornell University cost & debt at this university → $78,005 $80,747 $93,420 254
2 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo cost & debt at this university → $55,329 $57,149 $67,730 126
3 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities $46,205 $53,984 $56,759 52
4 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign cost & debt at this university → $49,711 $53,858 $62,420 255
5 Kansas State University cost & debt at this university → $44,913 $52,733 $54,143 82
6 University of Minnesota-Crookston cost & debt at this university → $41,763 $50,856 not published 14
7 University of Arkansas $45,012 $50,856 $50,541 78
8 Michigan State University cost & debt at this university → $48,126 $50,356 $51,648 55
9 Clemson University cost & debt at this university → $43,546 $49,370 $52,699 46
10 North Dakota State University-Main Campus cost & debt at this university → $51,629 $49,270 $58,811 50
11 Brigham Young University-Idaho cost & debt at this university → $41,531 $49,136 $50,153 28
12 Dordt University $49,218 $48,823 not published 15

What this figure does and does not tell you

Two medians are worth separating. $45,149 is what the typical graduate earns — each programme counted in proportion to how many students it graduates. $42,682 is what the typical programme reports, counting a class of twenty the same as a class of two thousand. The weighted figure is higher here, which means the larger programmes in this field are the better-paying ones.

It is the median of what real graduates of this exact major earned, taken from tax records two years after they completed. It is not a starting salary, not an average of job adverts, and not a projection. The median bachelor's major in this dataset reports $36,497, so Agricultural Business and Management sits above the middle by $8,652.

Two years is early in a career. Fields with long training pipelines — medicine, law, research — look weaker at this point than they will at ten, while trades and applied technical fields peak sooner. Read a low figure in a long-pipeline subject as "slow start", not "bad degree".

There is no debt figure here on purpose. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not borrowing, so nobody can honestly tell you the debt of a specific major. Debt is published per institution — that is where our university cost pages carry it.

Majors that pay more at this level Closest first — useful if you are still choosing.

Homeland Security — $43,240 Mathematics — $43,687 International Business — $44,316 Architectural Engineering Technology — $44,356 Air Transportation — $44,463 Human Resources Management and Services — $45,061

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Agricultural Business and Management: the questions people ask

How much do Agricultural Business and Management graduates earn?
The median bachelor's graduate earns $45,149 two years after finishing (weighting each programme by how many students it graduates), across 78 US programmes that publish the figure. One year out it is $43,001.
Is a Agricultural Business and Management degree worth it?
It pays around the middle. What you earn will depend more on where you study and what you do with it than on the subject label. The median graduate earns $5,629 a year more than a US worker whose highest qualification is a high-school diploma.
What is the salary range for Agricultural Business and Management?
Half of US programmes report medians between $38,289 and $46,087. Where you study moves this figure more than most applicants expect.
How many people graduate in Agricultural Business and Management each year?
About 4,791 students complete a bachelor's in this field each year across 137 US programmes.
Does this include student debt?
No — and deliberately. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not debt, so any "debt by major" figure you see elsewhere is an estimate. Debt is published per institution, which is why our university pages carry it and this page does not.
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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard, field-of-study earnings (median earnings of graduates who received federal financial aid, measured 1–3 years after completion). Figures are per major and credential level, pooled across US programmes. Information only, not financial advice.