2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Plant Science, General in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Plant Science, General is the 514th most popular major in the country with 668 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 43 plant science, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 36 plant science, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in plant science, general. That schools that top this list have a program in plant science, general in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Plant Science, General in the Great Lakes Region

1

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, Ohio

#15 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Ohio State University - Main Campus is located in Columbus, Ohio and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 36 bachelors’s plant sciences degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Plant Science, General at Ohio State University - Main Campus

2

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #2 spot on the list. Carbondale, Illinois is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s plant sciences degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Plant Science, General at SIUC

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Plant Science, General

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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