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2022 Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

7 Ranked Colleges
18 Degrees Awarded
$29,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Botany Schools for a Master's in the Great Lakes Region

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

Botany is the 607th most popular major in the country with 476 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 122 botany graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 botany graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in botany. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality botany programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the botany program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The botany school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region”.

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Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree botany students.

Top 7 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Botany in the Great Lakes Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s botany degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region master’s degree botany students list, UW - Madison has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Botany Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UW - Madison are $25,523, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. West Lafayette, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s botany degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

Purdue also took the #3 spot in our “Best Botany Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue are $28,794.

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#7 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. OHIO Athens is located in Athens, Ohio and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 masters’s botany degrees to qualified students.

OHIO Athens also took the #7 spot in our “Best Botany Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Ohio University - Athens Campus are $17,712.

Read full report on Botany at OHIO Athens

#4

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s botany degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region master’s degree botany students list, Michigan State has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Botany Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan State University are $37,056.

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#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. UIUC is a public institution located in Champaign, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UIUC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Botany Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are $30,083, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Botany at UIUC

#4 in overall quality

Miami University - Oxford ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Miami University - Oxford is a fairly large school located in Oxford, Ohio that handed out 5 masters’s botany degrees in 2019-2020.

Miami University - Oxford also made our “Best Botany Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #4. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Miami University - Oxford are $31,697.

Read full report on Botany at Miami University - Oxford

#6 in overall quality

Southern Illinois University Carbondale did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #7. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a fairly large school located in Carbondale, Illinois that handed out 2 masters’s botany degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region master’s degree botany students list, SIUC has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Botany Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are $32,928, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Botany at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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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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