2025 Best Horticultural Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
2Colleges in the Southeast Region
27Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in horticultural science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #215 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of horticultural science. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 27 doctor's degrees in horticultural science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on horticultural science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other horticultural science students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized horticultural science related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for horticultural science students working on their doctor'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 Horticultural Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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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
