2022 Best Value Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 59 people earned their degree in agricultural and horticultural plant breeding, making the major the 1083rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 9 agricultural and horticultural plant breeding graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 agricultural and horticultural plant breeding graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,944 and $116,843 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agricultural and horticultural plant breeding 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 agricultural and horticultural plant breeding program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding (Income $30-$48k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

#1 in overall quality

$30,042 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Cornell is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Ithaca, New York. It awarded 8 doctorate’s agricultural and horticultural plant breeding degrees in 2019-2020.

Cornell did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Cornell University are $30,042, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding at Cornell University

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding (Income $30-$48k)

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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