2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Plant Protection & Integrated Pest Management in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Plant Protection & Integrated Pest Management is the 856th most popular major in the country with 179 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 30 plant protection and integrated pest management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 plant protection and integrated pest management graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in plant protection and integrated pest management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in plant protection and integrated pest management.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Plant Protection & Integrated Pest Management in the Southeast Region

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The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management Major in the Southeast Region list. Knoxville, Tennessee is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s plant protection and integrated pest management degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 Plant Protection & Integrated Pest Management at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

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University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#10 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Athens, Georgia, and it awarded 5 masters’s plant protection and integrated pest management degrees in 2020-2021.

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 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%.

Read more about Plant Protection & Integrated Pest Management at University of Georgia

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Plant Protection & Integrated Pest Management

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.

Credits

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