2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Horticultural Science in Connecticut

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in Connecticut” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across Connecticut, there were 18 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 $39,377 and $19,767 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in Connecticut” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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 Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in Connecticut”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Horticultural Science in Connecticut

1

Naugatuck Valley Community College
Waterbury, Connecticut

#22 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Naugatuck Valley Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in Connecticut. Naugatuck Valley Community College is a small school located in Waterbury, Connecticut that handed out 5 associates’s horticultural science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Horticultural Science at Naugatuck Valley Community College

2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

#4 overall quality in Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. 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.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 full report on Horticultural Science at UCONN

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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

• *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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