Is a Agricultural Engineering degree worth it?
Across 19 schools, graduates of Agricultural Engineering earn a median $85,625 five years out on $21,594 of debt. Graduates most commonly work as Agricultural Engineers (modeled from the federal CIP-to-SOC crosswalk). These earnings and debt figures come from the U.S. Dept. of Education.
Median 5-yr pay
$85,625
Median debt
$21,594
Years to pay off
2.6
at 10% of pay
AI task exposure
43%
GPT-4-era overlap
10-yr job growth
+5.9%
BLS 2024–2034
Gender pay gap
3.6%
$89,569 vs $86,376
Net price
$17,400/yr
Debt-test failures
0%
of programs
'Real' premium
+$13,178
vs avg, adjusted
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Explore Agricultural Engineering in full →Data: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, BLS OEWS, O*NET, AI-exposure measures (Eloundou/AIOE), Zillow. Earnings reflect federally-aided graduates; see the full story for methodology and limitations.