2024 Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
4Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
31Botany Degrees Awarded
Botany/Plant Biology degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #259 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 31 degrees in botany/plant biology during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Your choice of botany/plant biology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for botany/plant biology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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Best Schools for Botany/Plant Biology in the Rocky Mountains Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the botany degree levels they offer.
It's hard to beat University of Wyoming if you want to pursue a degree in botany/plant biology. UW is a fairly large public university located in the town of Laramie. This university ranks 1st out of 7 schools for overall quality in the state of Wyoming.
There were roughly 7 botany/plant biology students who graduated with this degree at UW in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Weber State University if you wish to pursue a degree in botany/plant biology. WSU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Ogden. This university ranks 6th out of 13 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were about 12 botany/plant biology students who graduated with this degree at WSU in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat University of Idaho if you want to pursue a degree in botany/plant biology. U of I is a large public university located in the town of Moscow. A Best Colleges rank of #489 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means U of I is a great university overall.
There were about 5 botany/plant biology students who graduated with this degree at U of I in the most recent data year.
Utah Valley University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in botany/plant biology. Located in the small city of Orem, UVU is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #279 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UVU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 6 botany/plant biology students who graduated with this degree at UVU in the most recent year we have data available.
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).