2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in Arkansas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Plant Sciences Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s” 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 Arkansas, there were 53 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,056 and $18,126 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,130 and $24,615 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Plant Sciences Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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 Arkansas for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Plant Sciences Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in Arkansas

1

Arkansas State University - Main Campus
Jonesboro, Arkansas

#4 overall quality in Arkansas

$35,056 Average Early-Career Earnings

$18,126 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arkansas State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Plant Sciences Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s list. This fairly large school is located in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s plant sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Plant Sciences at Arkansas State University - Main Campus

2

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas

#1 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Plant Sciences Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s list. This large school is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s plant sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Arkansas 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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