2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the Southwest Region
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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 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 Horticultural Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Horticultural Science is the 474th most popular major in the country with 836 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 53 horticultural science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 horticultural science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree horticultural science students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Horticultural Science in the Southwest Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 11 bachelors’s horticultural science degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Horticultural Science at NMSU Main Campus
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stephen F Austin State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Nacogdoches, Texas, this fairly large public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s horticultural science students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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 more about Horticultural Science at SFASU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the Southwest Region list. Oklahoma State University - Main Campus is a large public school situated in Stillwater, Oklahoma. It awarded 17 bachelors’s horticultural science degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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 Oklahoma 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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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