2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region

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 Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Botany is the 612th most popular major in the country with 445 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 19 botany graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 botany graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in botany. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in botany.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree botany students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Botany in the Southwest Region

1

Western New Mexico University
Silver City, New Mexico

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western New Mexico University landed the #1 spot on the list. Silver City, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s botany degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Full Western New Mexico University Botany Report

2

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Botany at OSU

3

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
Norman, Oklahoma

#20 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Oklahoma is a large school located in Norman, Oklahoma that handed out 3 bachelors’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Read full report on Botany at University of Oklahoma

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Botany

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.