The demand for college educated professionals within the various industries of agriculture have not diminished for at least a decade. Concurrently, the quantity of graduates has not kept up with this demand. The fallout from generational differences in college going patterns has become apparent with the academic enrollment cliff impacting colleges and university. This study sought to describe multiple decades of characteristics and behaviors of students enrolled in colleges of agriculture and the related sciences (ARS) in the United States. Objectives were to describe, nationally, across multiple decades, the types of degrees in which students graduated in ARS, as well as the rates of graduation by sex and race. Data on graduation trends were compiled from the digitally available Digest of Education Statistics. Descriptive results were used to show that nationally, for both the all degree areas, and the degrees in ARS, quantity of graduates continuously increased in all degrees since 1970. The quantity of graduates obtaining a bachelor’s or associate degrees, specifically for ARS, continuously increased the decade prior to COVID. Graduates with a bachelor’s degree in ARS comprised less than 2% of all bachelor’s degrees conferred. As of the 1980-81 academic year, bachelor’s degree graduates, in all areas, were predominately women. Graduates with bachelor’s degrees in ARS were mostly women beginning in 2011-12. The percentage of graduates in ARS became less White, while Hispanic and multi-racial persons doubled their percentage makeup in the last decade. These trends show promise for the growth of ARS fields of study and universities that offer those programs. Targeting marketing to overcome biases towards college and novel programs could offer continued growth in ARS fields to combat issues of the academic enrollment cliff.