by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 445 people earned their degree in botany, making the major the 612th most popular in the United States.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 114 botany graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 78 botany graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in botany. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in botany.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree botany students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Humboldt State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Arcata, California, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Berkeley. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region. This large school is located in Berkeley, California, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Davis. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region. University of California - Davis is a public institution located in Davis, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region list. UH Manoa is a fairly large school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 6 bachelors’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Riverside. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region list. UCR is located in Riverside, California and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s botany degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Botany at University of California - Riverside
University of Washington - Seattle Campus ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region list. Seattle, Washington is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s botany degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Botany at University of Washington - Seattle Campus
With a ranking of #7, University of California - Irvine did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region list. UC Irvine is a public institution located in Irvine, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
California State Polytechnic University - Pomona came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region ranking. Cal Poly Pomona is located in Pomona, California and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s botany degrees to qualified students.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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