2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding (Income $0-$30k)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 59 people earned their degree in agricultural and horticultural plant breeding, making the major the 1083rd most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 agricultural and horticultural plant breeding graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agricultural and horticultural plant breeding programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the agricultural and horticultural plant breeding 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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The agricultural and horticultural plant breeding school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k”.

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Best Value Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree agricultural and horticultural plant breeding students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding (Income $0-$30k)

#1

Washington State University

Pullman, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$9,334 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. Washington State University is a large school located in Pullman, Washington that handed out 9 bachelors’s agricultural and horticultural plant breeding degrees in 2019-2020.

Wazzu not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $9,334 for Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Wazzu.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding at Washington State University

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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