2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Horticulture in Maine (With Aid)

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Horticulture is the 194th most popular major in the country with 4,051 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Maine, there were 10 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 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.

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Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Horticulture in Maine (With Aid)

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s horticulture students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMaine, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Horticulture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UMaine is $17,558 for maine bachelor’s degree horticulture students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Horticulture at UMaine

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Horticulture in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Horticulture (With Aid)

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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