by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 botany graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in botany. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in botany.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree botany students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region. UH Manoa is a fairly large public school situated in Honolulu, Hawaii. It awarded 6 masters’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Wazzu is a large school located in Pullman, Washington that handed out 4 masters’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Riverside. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region list. Riverside, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s botany degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Davis. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region list. UC Davis is a large public school situated in Davis, California. It awarded 2 masters’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Berkeley. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of California - Berkeley is a public institution located in Berkeley, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.
Read more about Botany at University of California - Berkeley
University of Washington - Seattle Campus ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a large public school situated in Seattle, Washington. It awarded 8 masters’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
With a ranking of #6, California State University - Chico did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region list. Chico State is located in Chico, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s botany degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Botany at California State University - Chico
Claremont Graduate University ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Claremont, California, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s botany students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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