2023 Most Well Attended Plant Sciences Major in the New England Region for an Associate

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In 2020-2021, 3,175 people earned their degree in plant sciences, making the major the 164th most popular in the United States. 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 New England region, there were 67 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,393 and $24,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Plant Sciences Major in the New England Region for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in plant sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular plant sciences programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Plant Sciences Major in the New England Region for an Associate

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

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in the New England Region

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Top 5% overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Plant Sciences Major in the New England Region for an Associate list. UCONN is a large school located in Storrs, Connecticut that handed out 6 associates’s plant sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Plant Sciences at University of Connecticut

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Naugatuck Valley Community College
Waterbury, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Naugatuck Valley Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Plant Sciences Major in the New England Region for an Associate. Located in Waterbury, Connecticut, this small public school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified associates’s plant sciences students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Plant Sciences at Naugatuck Valley Community College

• Most Popular 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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