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2022 Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
16 Degrees Awarded
$15,000 Avg Student Debt
Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor's in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 4,051 people earned their degree in horticulture, making the major the 194th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, horticulture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,043 and had an average of $18,172 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 763 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $15,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent horticulture programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the horticulture program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Horticulture Schools

The horticulture school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k”.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Horticulture (Income $48-$75k) in Illinois

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #1 spot on the list. SIUC is a public institution located in Carbondale, Illinois. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SIUC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Horticulture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SIUC is $14,985 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Horticulture students whose families make $48-$75k.

Read full report on Horticulture at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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