Program Payoff

Agricultural Business and Management programs in Illinois

31 schools in Illinois teach this, at certificate or associate level. 1 of them reports what graduates earn two years out; the highest is $35,060 at John Wood Community College.

What this work pays in Illinois

Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products in Illinois earn a median of $73,510 a year across 51,310 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

Also leads toMedianJobs in Illinois
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers$69,01042,400
Computer User Support Specialists$59,86026,060
First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers$59,030510
Economics Teachers, Postsecondary$124,850460
Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary$105,440340

Occupation wages: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025.

Schools

SchoolCredentialMedian debtGraduate earnings, 2 yrsGraduates
John Wood Community College Quincy Associate's degree $35,060 (11 grads) 5
Stautzenberger College-Rockford Career College Rockford Associate's degree $24,314 not published 6
Black Hawk College Moline Associate's degree not published 12
City Colleges of Chicago-Olive-Harvey College Chicago Undergraduate certificate not published 0
Danville Area Community College Danville Associate's degree not published 2
Heartland Community College Normal Undergraduate certificate not published
Highland Community College Freeport Associate's degree not published 5
Illinois Central College East Peoria Undergraduate certificate not published 18
Illinois Central College East Peoria Associate's degree not published 0
Illinois Valley Community College Oglesby Undergraduate certificate not published 3
Illinois Valley Community College Oglesby Associate's degree not published 1
John A Logan College Carterville Associate's degree not published
Joliet Junior College Joliet Associate's degree not published 5
Kankakee Community College Kankakee Undergraduate certificate not published 3
Kaskaskia College Centralia Undergraduate certificate not published 8
Kishwaukee College Malta Undergraduate certificate not published 1
Kishwaukee College Malta Associate's degree not published 0
Lake Land College Mattoon Undergraduate certificate not published 13
Lake Land College Mattoon Associate's degree not published 17
McHenry County College Crystal Lake Undergraduate certificate not published
McHenry County College Crystal Lake Associate's degree not published
Parkland College Champaign Undergraduate certificate not published 13
Parkland College Champaign Associate's degree not published 6
Rend Lake College Ina Associate's degree not published 10
Richland Community College Decatur Associate's degree not published 1
Sauk Valley Community College Dixon Undergraduate certificate not published
Sauk Valley Community College Dixon Associate's degree not published 1
Shawnee Community College Ullin Undergraduate certificate not published 2
Shawnee Community College Ullin Associate's degree not published 0
Spoon River College Canton Associate's degree not published 4
William Rainey Harper College Palatine Undergraduate certificate not published

A dash under earnings or debt means the U.S. Department of Education has not published a figure for that program — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates, which covers about four of every five programs. It never means zero, and it says nothing about whether the program is any good. Where a figure is shown, the number of graduates behind it is shown with it.

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Program and outcome figures: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10.