2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Horticultural Science in the New England Region

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 823 people earned their degree in horticultural science, making the major the 474th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 30 horticultural science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 horticultural science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in horticultural science. That schools that top this list have a program in horticultural science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree horticultural science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Horticultural Science in the New England Region

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Naugatuck Valley Community College
Waterbury, Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Naugatuck Valley Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region list. This small school is located in Waterbury, Connecticut, and it awarded 5 associates’s horticultural science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Naugatuck Valley Community College Horticultural Science Report

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University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Top 5% overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s horticultural science degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Horticultural Science at UCONN

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Horticultural Science

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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