2025 Best Horticultural Science Associate Degree Schools
2Colleges in the United States
36Associate Degrees
Horticultural Science is about average in terms of popularity for associate degrees programs. That is, it ranks #518 out of the 1020 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Horticultural Science Associate Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 36 associate degrees in horticultural science during the <nil> 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 - The number of horticultural science students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
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 associate 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 Associate Degree Schools 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
