2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Horticultural Science in the New England Region

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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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 horticultural science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in horticultural science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their horticultural science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Horticultural Science in the New England Region

1

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

Top 25% overall quality in New England

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Amherst, Massachusetts, this large public school awarded 9 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s horticultural science students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Horticultural Science at UMass Amherst

2

University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region list. UVM is a public institution located in Burlington, Vermont. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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3

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Top 25% overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Horticultural Science Major in the New England Region list. University of Connecticut is located in Storrs, Connecticut and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s horticultural science degrees to qualified 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Horticultural Science at University of Connecticut

• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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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