2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Applied Horticulture Major in the New England Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Applied Horticulture Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations is the 525th most popular major in the country with 1,617 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 16 applied horticulture/horticulture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 9 applied horticulture/horticulture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Applied Horticulture Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in applied horticulture/horticulture operations. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in applied horticulture/horticulture operations.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Applied Horticulture Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree applied horticulture students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations in the New England Region

1

North Shore Community College
Danvers, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Shore Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Applied Horticulture Major in the New England Region list. North Shore Community College is a small public school situated in Danvers, Massachusetts. It awarded 3 associates’s applied horticulture degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations at North Shore Community College

2

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

Top 10% overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Applied Horticulture Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it awarded 6 associates’s applied horticulture degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.

Read more about Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations at University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations

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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