Arkansas·Architecture and Engineering Occupations·SOC 17-2021

Best Agricultural Engineer programs in Arkansas, ranked by enrollment

Apply knowledge of engineering technology and biological science to agricultural problems concerned with power and machinery, electrification, structures, soil and water conservation, and processing of agricultural.

1 schools in Arkansas run programs that feed this job, graduating 1 people a year. The job pays a median of $57,740 in Arkansas across about 40 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledEngineerProject EngineerAgricultural EngineerResearch Agricultural EngineerTest EngineerField EngineerProduct EngineerRegional Engineer
Graduates / yr
1
in Arkansas
Median pay · Arkansas
$57,740
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
40
people employed
Schools
1
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
40%
across those schools
Median net price
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Arkansas that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in Arkansas that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Arkansas (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Arkansas page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 14.0301In Arkansas
1
100.0%
1$65,020$23,000

Top 1 schools in Arkansas

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 1 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Pine Bluff, AR Public · 1 feeder programs
1Agricultural Engineering40%41%

All 1 schools in Arkansas

Every school in Arkansas with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Arkansas that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
University of Arkansas at Pine BluffPine BluffPublic11

What agricultural engineers earn in Arkansas

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Arkansas
$57,740
Mean annual
$69,640
Jobs in state
40
What the range looks like
10th pct$37,090Median$57,74090th pct$106,980
Versus the national median
-41.4%

U.S. median $98,590. Arkansas pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
2.86×

Concentrated here: Arkansas employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+5.9%
Faster than average
Openings per year
100
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
100
1,700 → 1,800
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Agricultural Engineers page.

How to become a Agricultural Engineer

Job zone 4 of 5 · SVP 7.0 to < 8.0
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Top skills

WritingSpeakingActive ListeningReading ComprehensionCritical ThinkingMathematics

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Arkansas

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 1 majors mapped to Agricultural Engineers1 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 14.0301Agricultural Engineering

Common questions

Answers for people weighing agricultural engineers programs in Arkansas.

What degree do you need to become an Agricultural Engineer?+

Bachelor's degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Agricultural Engineering, which awarded 1 degrees in Arkansas in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming an Agricultural Engineer?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Agricultural Engineering. Together they graduate about 1 people a year in Arkansas.

How much do agricultural engineers earn in Arkansas?+

The median is $57,740 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 41.4% below the U.S. median of $98,590. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for agricultural engineers growing?+

BLS projects a +5.9% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, faster than average, with roughly 100 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Arkansas?+

1 institutions in Arkansas reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do agricultural engineers work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Engineer, Project Engineer, Agricultural Engineer, Research Agricultural Engineer among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 17-2021.

Agricultural Engineers in other statesIndianaIllinoisOhioIowaMichiganTexasMinnesotaPennsylvania
Programs in ArkansasAgricultural Engineering

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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