2025 Best Horticulture Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
2Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
33Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in horticulture, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #87 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for horticulture students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 33 associate degrees in horticulture during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 associate 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 much debt horticulture students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized horticulture related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for horticulture students working on their associate degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Horticulture Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team