by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Horticulture is the 218th most popular major in the country with 3,234 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, horticulture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,708 and had an average of $18,440 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 921 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,352 and $13,281 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 66 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 10 colleges that offered a degree in horticulture. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in horticulture.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree horticulture students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Southeast Region. ABAC Tifton is a small school located in Tifton, Georgia that handed out 21 bachelors’s horticulture degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Southeast Region list. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s horticulture degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Southeast Region list. University of Arkansas is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 bachelors’s horticulture degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 10 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Kentucky University landed the #4 spot on the list. Eastern Kentucky University is a public institution located in Richmond, Kentucky. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school awarded 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s horticulture students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
Clemson University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Southeast Region ranking. This large school is located in Clemson, South Carolina, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s horticulture degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
With a ranking of #7, North Carolina State University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Southeast Region list. North Carolina State University is a large school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 3 bachelors’s horticulture degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
With a ranking of #8, Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Southeast Region list. Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte is a private not-for-profit institution located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
University of Florida did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #8. University of Florida is located in Gainesville, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s horticulture degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Florida Southern College ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticulture Major in the Southeast Region list. This small school is located in Lakeland, Florida, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s horticulture degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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