2022 Best Value Applied Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Applied Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 2,238 people earned their degree in applied horticulture/horticulture operations, making the major the 471st most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 269 applied horticulture/horticulture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 applied horticulture/horticulture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent applied horticulture/horticulture operations programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the applied horticulture/horticulture operations program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Applied Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Applied Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas A&M University - College Station

College Station, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$19,057 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Applied Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M College Station is a large school located in College Station, Texas that handed out 38 bachelors’s applied horticulture degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M College Station also took the #1 spot in our “Best Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M College Station is $19,057 for southwest region bachelor’s degree applied horticulture students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%.

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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