2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in Connecticut

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Plant Sciences Major in Connecticut” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Plant Sciences is the 164th most popular major in the country with 3,175 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, plant sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,727 and had an average of $19,352 in loans still to pay off.

Across Connecticut, there were 24 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,983 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,377 and $19,767 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in Connecticut” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in plant sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in plant sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut associate degree plant sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in Connecticut

1

Naugatuck Valley Community College
Waterbury, Connecticut

#22 overall quality in 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 Plant Sciences Major in Connecticut list. Naugatuck Valley Community College is located in Waterbury, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 associates’s plant sciences degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Plant Sciences at Naugatuck Valley Community College

2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

#4 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in Connecticut list. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s plant sciences 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%.

Full University of Connecticut Plant Sciences Report

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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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