2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Plains States Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 3,591 people earned their degree in horticulture, making the major the 218th most popular in the United States. In , horticulture graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $38,081 and had an average of $16,904 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 234 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,377 and $16,824 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in horticulture. That schools that top this list have a program in horticulture in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Horticulture in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, this large public school handed out 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s horticulture students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Horticulture at UNL
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Plains States Region. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s horticulture degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full South Dakota State University Horticulture Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Minnesota - Crookston. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Minnesota - Crookston is a small school located in Crookston, Minnesota that handed out 0 bachelors’s horticulture degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Minnesota - Crookston Horticulture Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Plains States Region. North Dakota State University - Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Fargo, North Dakota that handed out 0 bachelors’s horticulture degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Horticulture at North Dakota State University - Main Campus
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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