2024 Best Horticultural Science Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
87Horticultural Science Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in horticultural science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #474 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of horticultural science. Combined, these schools handed out 87 degrees in horticultural science to qualified students.
Your choice of horticultural science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Horticultural Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Horticultural Science Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Horticultural Science in the Rocky Mountains Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the horticultural science degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Horticultural Science
Any student who is interested in horticultural science needs to take a look at Colorado State University - Fort Collins. Located in the midsize city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #156 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Colorado State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 69 horticultural science students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent year we have data available.
Utah State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in horticultural science. USU is a very large public university located in the city of Logan. This university ranks 5th out of 13 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were about 7 horticultural science students who graduated with this degree at USU in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in horticultural science has to take a look at University of Idaho. Located in the distant town of Moscow, U of I is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 10 schools for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were about 5 horticultural science students who graduated with this degree at U of I in the most recent year we have data available.
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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Your choice of horticultural science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Horticultural Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
