2025 Best Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
92Applied Horticulture Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in applied horticulture/horticulture operations, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #525 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 92 degrees in applied horticulture/horticulture operations annually.
Choosing a Great Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations School
Your choice of applied horticulture/horticulture operations school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations in the Rocky Mountains Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the applied horticulture degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Applied Horticulture
It is difficult to beat Colorado State University - Fort Collins if you want to pursue a degree in applied horticulture/horticulture operations. Colorado State is a very large public university located in the city of Fort Collins. A Best Colleges rank of #178 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Colorado State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 16 applied horticulture/horticulture operations students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in applied horticulture/horticulture operations has to take a look at Front Range Community College. FRCC is a very large public college located in the suburb of Westminster. This college ranks 6th out of 31 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 33 applied horticulture/horticulture operations students who graduated with this degree at FRCC in the most recent year we have data available.
College of Western Idaho is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in applied horticulture/horticulture operations. Located in the rural area of Nampa, CWI is a public college with a large student population. This college ranks 8th out of 10 colleges for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were roughly 20 applied horticulture/horticulture operations students who graduated with this degree at CWI in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
Your choice of applied horticulture/horticulture operations school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
