2022 Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s For Those Getting Aid” 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.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in horticulture. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree horticulture students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Horticulture (With Aid)

#1

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

#1 in overall quality

$30,042 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Ithaca, New York, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 9 degrees to qualified masters’s horticulture students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Cornell, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Horticulture Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Cornell University are $30,042, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Horticulture at Cornell

#2

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon

#2 in overall quality

$28,121 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Horticulture Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Oregon State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Oregon State is a large public school situated in Corvallis, Oregon. It awarded 9 masters’s horticulture degrees in 2019-2020.

Oregon State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Horticulture Master’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Oregon State University are $28,121.

Full Oregon State Horticulture Report

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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