2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Horse Husbandry/Equine Science & Management in the Rocky Mountains Region

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 an Associate Highly Focused on Horse Husbandry/Equine Science & Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Horse Husbandry/Equine Science & Management is the 747th most popular major in the country with 436 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 3 horse husbandry/equine science and management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 horse husbandry/equine science and management graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,822 and $20,997 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horse Husbandry/Equine Science & Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in horse husbandry/equine science and management. That schools that top this list have a program in horse husbandry/equine science and management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horse Husbandry/Equine Science & Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region associate degree horse husbandry/equine science & management students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Horse Husbandry/Equine Science & Management in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Southern Utah University
Cedar City, Utah

Top 20% overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Utah University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horse Husbandry/Equine Science & Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Cedar City, Utah is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s horse husbandry/equine science and management degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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 Horse Husbandry/Equine Science & Management at Southern Utah University

2

Snow College
Ephraim, Utah

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horse Husbandry/Equine Science & Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Snow College landed the #2 spot on the list. Snow College is located in Ephraim, Utah and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 associates’s horse husbandry/equine science and management degrees to qualified students.

Full Snow College Horse Husbandry/Equine Science & Management Report

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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

Footnotes

• *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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