2023 Best Horticulture Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$38,212
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Horticulture for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Southwest region, there were 441 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,212 and $22,125 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 horticulture graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Horticulture for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in horticulture. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great horticulture programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the horticulture program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Horticulture for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree vets studying horticulture.
Top 2 Best Horticulture Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Horticulture for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M College Station is a large school located in College Station, Texas that handed out 57 bachelors’s horticulture degrees in 2020-2021.
Texas A&M College Station also made our “Best Horticulture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1.Among the 70,418 students enrolled at Texas A&M College Station, 5 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 4 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,925. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Horticulture for a Bachelor’s. Oklahoma State University - Main Campus is a large school located in Stillwater, Oklahoma that handed out 4 bachelors’s horticulture degrees in 2020-2021.
OSU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Horticulture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, OSU supports 24,535 students, and 1,038 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 439 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,226. In addition to receiving other benefits, 39 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. OSU does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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