2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Horticultural Science in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Horticultural Science is the 474th most popular major in the country with 836 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 32 horticultural science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 horticultural science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,012 and $13,730 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in horticultural science. That schools that top this list have a program in horticultural science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree horticultural science students.
Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Horticultural Science in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Naugatuck Valley Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region list. Waterbury, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s horticultural science degrees to 5 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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 Horticultural Science at Naugatuck Valley Community College
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. UCONN is a large school located in Storrs, Connecticut that handed out 9 associates’s horticultural science degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.
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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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