2022 Best Value Ornamental Horticulture Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes 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 Ornamental Horticulture Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Ornamental Horticulture is the 981st most popular major in the country with 115 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 28 ornamental horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 ornamental horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Ornamental Horticulture Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in ornamental horticulture. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent ornamental horticulture programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the ornamental horticulture program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Ornamental Horticulture Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Ornamental Horticulture Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Ornamental Horticulture Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Ornamental Horticulture in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Kishwaukee College

Malta, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$5,782 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kishwaukee College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Ornamental Horticulture Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region list. Malta, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s ornamental horticulture degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

Kishwaukee College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Ornamental Horticulture Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $5,782 for great lakes region associate degree ornamental horticulture students per year to attend Kishwaukee College.

Full Kishwaukee College Ornamental Horticulture Report

#2

Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute

Wooster, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$17,608 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Ornamental Horticulture Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute landed the #2 spot on the list. Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute is located in Wooster, Ohio and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 associates’s ornamental horticulture degrees to qualified students.

Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Ornamental Horticulture Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $17,608 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Ornamental Horticulture students per year to attend Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Ornamental Horticulture at Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Ornamental Horticulture

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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