2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in Alabama

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In 2020-2021, 3,175 people earned their degree in plant sciences, making the major the 164th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, plant sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,727 and had an average of $19,352 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alabama, there were 106 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,211 and $17,603 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,476 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in Alabama” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in plant sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in plant sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in Alabama

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in Alabama

1

Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

#1 overall quality in Alabama

$43,278 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Auburn University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in Alabama. Located in Auburn, Alabama, this large public school awarded 41 degrees to qualified masters’s plant sciences students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, Alabama

#19 overall quality in Alabama

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tuskegee University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Sciences Major in Alabama. Tuskegee University is located in Tuskegee, Alabama and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s plant sciences degrees to qualified students.

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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

• *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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