2024 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
There are about 22,187 students enrolled in Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services in the USA.
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Average
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Diplomas received last year
3,957
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-75%
popularity Rank
#166
cost
Very Affordable
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Median degree cost
$12K
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-51%
cost Rank
#394
salary
Low Paying
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Average Salary Two Years Out of School
$33K
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-16%
salary Rank
#385
professors
Not Very Good
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Professor Rating
C+
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-6%
professors Rank
#339
students
Not Very Diverse
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Diversity Rating
C+
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-6%
students Rank
#361
SUMMARY
Going to school for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services is a valuable choice and generally a required first step for scholars planning to begin a career as a greenhouse manager, a floriculture operations and management, or an ornamental horticulture. Interestingly, applied horticulture and horticultural business services is a very rare degree ranking as the 300th most popular degree. Last year, there were 391 applied horticulture and horticultural business services degrees conferred. In-state tuition for applied horticulture and horticultural business services at private schools are more costly than their public rivals by 0.01%.
With only 38 universities having programs for applied horticulture and horticultural business services you may have a more finite list of the institutions which will have a degree program for you. If you are looking to surround yourself with other applied horticulture and horticultural business services majors, consider looking at institutions in Pennsylvania which have more undergraduates admitted to applied horticulture and horticultural business services than any other state. More generally, the top region to pursue applied horticulture and horticultural business services is in the Mid East region with SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill, Farmingdale State College, and Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus best representing the region. Interestingly, our pick of the top conference to study applied horticulture and horticultural business services is the Southeastern Conference with University of Arkansas, University of Georgia, and Texas A & M University-College Station representing the conference. That being said, our selection for the best school for applied horticulture and horticultural business services is Texas A & M University-College Station, and here you can find our comprehensive list for the best colleges.
The overall best school does not have to be the 'best' school for you. There might be lots more angels to weigh when selecting college. Things such as campus amenities, transportation services, and food might impact one's inclinations of where to go to college. At authority.org, we have weighed the pros and cons for you. If, for example, you are interested in which applied horticulture and horticultural business services school boasts the top campus, the answer is University of Massachusetts-Amherst. If you are very interested in which university is home to the finest campus, we have a whole list dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through professor reviews, government databases, student reviews, and more to compare each major in an unbiased and informative way. You can find our well researched list for the colleges with the best student life here and, from that list, our pick of the college with the best student life for applied horticulture and horticultural business services is Texas A & M University-College Station. Are you curious why? Continue scrolling to learn more about our top recommendations. Many of our picks will probably shock you.
If price is a primary influence in your decision on where to go to college, you might be cautious about Delaware Valley University. Delaware Valley University is our most expensive university for applied horticulture and horticultural business services, at least for out of state students. We do have a list of the most expensive universities that could put the price tag at Delaware Valley University into perspective. For more context, you might care to know that applied horticulture and horticultural business services is the 278th most expensive degree in the US, with an average associated cost of $25,600. On a broader scale, the most costly state for applied horticulture and horticultural business services nationally is South Carolina with tuition and fees at the primary school, Clemson University, of $37,110. Even more broadly, the most expensive region of the U.S. for applied horticulture and horticultural business services is unfortunately unavailable due to missing data.
Our cheapest region for applied horticulture and horticultural business services is the Rocky Mountains region which is represented by Colorado State University-Fort Collins with a cost of $28,147, Brigham Young University-Idaho with a cost of $4,208, and Brigham Young University-Provo with a cost of $5,790. More optimistically, the most affordable college for applied horticulture and horticultural business services is Brigham Young University-Idaho. Authority's entire list of the most affordable colleges can be explored here.
In-state learners can expect to pay in the neighborhood of $11,700 for a degree in applied horticulture and horticultural business services. That cost balloons a little to an average of $27,000 for an out-of-state public-school student. On that note, our pick for the college with the best value for applied horticulture and horticultural business services: Texas A & M University-College Station. Through this link you will see our comprehensive list on the colleges we believe to be the best value in general. Do know, this list is based on out-of-state tuition costs. The value proposition changes when in-state tuition costs are considered, but we do not know in which states any one student has residency.
Earnings for applied horticulture and horticultural business services majors vary a lot, but two years after completing the major graduates will often make around $45,100. There is a lot of variation in pay; top earners can enjoy pay up to $77,300. Straight out of school, the minimum earning positions within the applied horticulture and horticultural business services field make $25,900, which isn't that bad. The top earning graduates from applied horticulture and horticultural business services have come from Texas A & M University-College Station and if you want to find the schools with all of the highest earning graduates, Authority has that too.
The all-around diversity of applied horticulture and horticultural business services lies quite poor, falling in only the 2nd percentile of majors nationally. The school with the highest composite diversity for applied horticulture and horticultural business services is Delaware Valley University and here you can find our general list for the universities which have the most diversity. The overall financial diversity of the Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services major stands only within the 61st percentile compared to all other majors. Racial diversity is even less in the 1st percentile. White undergraduates compose the largest proportion at 90% of those majoring in applied horticulture and horticultural business services. Additionally, 72% of scholars pursuing an applied horticulture and horticultural business services major are men.
The median rating of applied horticulture and horticultural business services' professors is 3.9 stars, a score that is 2% worse than the median across all majors; which is a subpar ranking. If you want to find the most popular applied horticulture and horticultural business services professor in the country, consider looking up Max Conrad at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans. This might surprise you, but the best ranked instructors for applied horticulture and horticultural business services from student rankings are at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. As we including data beyond basic rankings it becomes clear that the college with the best professors for applied horticulture and horticultural business services is Purdue University-Main Campus. You can find an explanation of our evolving ranking methodology of the best overall professors here, as well as many of the best instructors nationwide.
Finally, the hardest university to get into for applied horticulture and horticultural business services is North Carolina State University at Raleigh. While we think of this list more as a novelty, we do have a general page for the hardest colleges to get into. With that said, here at Authority we do hope you understand that looking at higher education with context primarily formed from superlatives could cause issues. We at Authority encourage you to read our other pages on different topics and peruse a few of Authority's helpful background articles on important things to think about as you continue your university search.
Top 25 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
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Cornell University
Ithaca, NY | www.cornell.edu/
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#2 2024 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL | www.ufl.edu/
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University of Georgia
Athens, GA | www.uga.edu/
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Texas A & M University-College Station
College Station, TX | https://www.tamu.edu/
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Purdue University-Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN | https://www.purdue.edu/
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North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Raleigh, NC | www.ncsu.edu/
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Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI | https://www.msu.edu/
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Brigham Young University
Provo, UT | www.byu.edu/
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George Washington University
Washington, DC | https://www.gwu.edu/
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University of Maryland-College Park
College Park, MD | www.umd.edu/
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University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Amherst, MA | www.umass.edu/
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#12 2024 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
Clemson University
Clemson, SC | www.clemson.edu/
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Oklahoma State University-Main Campus
Stillwater, OK | www.okstate.edu/
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#14 2024 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA | calpoly.edu/
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#15 2024 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE | www.unl.edu/
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#16 2024 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
Foothill College
Los Altos Hills, CA | https://foothill.edu/
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#17 2024 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR | https://www.uark.edu/
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#18 2024 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
Andrews University
Berrien Springs, MI | www.andrews.edu/
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Fox Valley Technical College
Appleton, WI | https://www.fvtc.edu/
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#20 2024 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR | https://oregonstate.edu/
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#21 2024 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS | https://www.msstate.edu/
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#22 2024 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
Santa Barbara City College
Santa Barbara, CA | www.sbcc.edu/
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Las Positas College
Livermore, CA | www.laspositascollege.edu/
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#24 2024 Best Colleges for Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services
Washington State University
Pullman, WA | wsu.edu/
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Southeast Technical College
Sioux Falls, SD | www.southeasttech.edu/