2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 the Southwest region, there were 332 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,469 and $20,719 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

Eastern Oklahoma State College
Wilburton, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Oklahoma State College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. Wilburton, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s plant sciences degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Full Eastern Oklahoma State College Plant Sciences Report

2

Arizona Western College
Yuma, Arizona

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona Western College landed the #2 spot on the list. Arizona Western College is a public institution located in Yuma, Arizona. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Plant Sciences at Arizona Western College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences

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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