2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in Massachusetts

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Massachusetts” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Plant Sciences is the 162nd most popular major in the country with 3,246 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, plant sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $35,854 and had an average of $19,711 in loans still to pay off.

Across Massachusetts, there were 32 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $25,880 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,213 and $99,210 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great plant sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the plant sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Plant Sciences Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Massachusetts” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Massachusetts

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Massachusetts.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in Massachusetts

#1

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$32,341 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Massachusetts Amherst is a large school located in Amherst, Massachusetts that handed out 2 doctorate’s plant sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMass Amherst, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Plant Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UMass Amherst are $32,341, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Plant Sciences at UMass Amherst

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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