If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in horticulture, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #228 one in the country in terms of popularity.This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of horticulture. Combined, these schools handed out 83 bachelor's degrees in horticulture to qualified students.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to horticulture students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other horticulture students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for horticulture to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized horticulture related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for horticulture students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Horticulture Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Colorado State University - Fort Collins is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in horticulture. Located in the city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the horticulture degree program at Colorado State University - Fort Collins get $9,778 more than the standard college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
It is hard to beat Brigham Young University - Idaho if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in horticulture. BYU - I is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the town of Rexburg.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the horticulture program report average early career earnings of $26,238.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
