2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 40 people earned their degree in agricultural & horticultural plant breeding, making the major the 1082nd most popular in the United States.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 agricultural & horticultural plant breeding graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Major” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in agricultural & horticultural plant breeding. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their agricultural & horticultural plant breeding program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Major
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Major”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Major list. Iowa State University is a large school located in Ames, Iowa that handed out 2 masters’s agricultural and horticultural plant breeding degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.
Read more about Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding at Iowa State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Major. Texas A&M College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 7 masters’s agricultural and horticultural plant breeding degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding at Texas A&M College Station
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Major. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified masters’s agricultural and horticultural plant breeding students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding at UGA
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #4 spot on the list. Cornell is a large school located in Ithaca, New York that handed out 7 masters’s agricultural and horticultural plant breeding degrees in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding at Cornell
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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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