2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Turf & Turfgrass Management in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Turf and Turfgrass Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Turf & Turfgrass Management is the 705th most popular major in the country with 379 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 128 turf and turfgrass management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 turf and turfgrass management graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Turf and Turfgrass Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in turf and turfgrass management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent turf and turfgrass management 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 turf and turfgrass management 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 Turf and Turfgrass Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Turf and Turfgrass Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Turf & Turfgrass Management in the Southeast Region

#1

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

Tifton, Georgia

#3 in overall quality

$6,933 Average Net Price

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 Best Value Turf and Turfgrass Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. ABAC Tifton is a small school located in Tifton, Georgia that handed out 16 bachelors’s turf and turfgrass management degrees in 2019-2020.

ABAC Tifton not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Turf & Turfgrass Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for ABAC Tifton is $6,933 for southeast region bachelor’s degree turf and turfgrass management students.

Read more about Turf & Turfgrass Management at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

#2

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$16,458 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Turf and Turfgrass Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s turf and turfgrass management degrees in 2019-2020.

NC State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Turf & Turfgrass Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for North Carolina State University is $16,458 for southeast region bachelor’s degree turf and turfgrass management students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%.

Read more about Turf & Turfgrass Management at North Carolina State University

#3

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$13,649 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Turf and Turfgrass Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. University of Georgia is a large school located in Athens, Georgia that handed out 5 bachelors’s turf and turfgrass management degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UGA, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Turf & Turfgrass Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $13,649 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Turf and Turfgrass Management students per year to attend University of Georgia.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Turf & Turfgrass Management at University of Georgia

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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).
• 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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