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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Horticulture (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

1 Ranked Colleges
10 Degrees Awarded
Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

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 “Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 4,051 people earned their degree in horticulture, making the major the 194th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, horticulture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,043 and had an average of $18,172 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 10 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent 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 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 Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Horticulture (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school handed out 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s horticulture students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine bachelor’s degree horticulture students whose families make $48-$75k list, UMaine has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Horticulture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $17,218 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Horticulture students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend UMaine.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Horticulture at UMaine

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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