Agricultural Business at Purdue University - Main Campus

If you are interested in studying agricultural business, you may want to check out the program at Purdue University - Main Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and has a total student population of 46,655. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 109 students received a bachelor's degree in agricultural business from Purdue.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Agricultural Business section at the bottom of this page.

Purdue Agricultural Business Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Business

Purdue Agricultural Business Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks agricultural business programs across the country. The following shows how Purdue performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The agricultural business major at Purdue is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Agricultural Business. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	3
	4
	17

Agricultural Business Student Demographics at Purdue

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the agricultural business majors at Purdue University - Main Campus.

Purdue Agricultural Business Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 109 students earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural business from Purdue. About 43% of these graduates were women and the other 57% were men. The typical agricultural business bachelor's degree program is made up of only 39% women. So female students are more repesented at Purdue since its program graduates 4% more women than average.

About 87% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in agricultural business at Purdue are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Purdue University - Main Campus with a bachelor's in agricultural business.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	95
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Purdue also has a doctoral program available in agricultural business. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Farm/Farm & Ranch Management
• Agricultural Economics

Careers That Agricultural Business Grads May Go Into

A degree in agricultural business can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Farmers, Ranchers, and Agricultural Managers	40	$64,030

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Abhijitsathe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.