2025 Best Horticultural Science Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
53Horticultural Science Degrees Awarded
A degree in horticultural science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #474 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Horticultural Science Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 53 degrees in horticultural science to qualified students.
The horticultural science program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Horticultural Science rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for horticultural science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The horticultural science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Horticultural Science Schools in the Southwest Region.
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Best Schools for Horticultural Science in the Southwest Region
The schools below may not offer all types of horticultural science degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Southwest Region Schools in Horticultural Science
Every student who is interested in horticultural science needs to look into Texas Tech University. Texas Tech is a very large public university located in the city of Lubbock. A Best Colleges rank of #161 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Texas Tech is a great university overall.
There were about 2 horticultural science students who graduated with this degree at Texas Tech in the most recent data year.
Oklahoma State University - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in horticultural science. OSU is a very large public university located in the town of Stillwater. This university ranks 2nd out of 31 colleges for overall quality in the state of Oklahoma.
There were approximately 25 horticultural science students who graduated with this degree at OSU in the most recent data year.
New Mexico State University - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in horticultural science. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized suburb of Las Cruces. This university ranks 11th out of 24 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were about 12 horticultural science students who graduated with this degree at NMSU Main Campus in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The horticultural science program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Horticultural Science rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for horticultural science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
