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 was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Great Lakes 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 Great Lakes region, there were 125 botany graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 botany graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Great Lakes 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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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Great Lakes Region. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a fairly large school located in Carbondale, Illinois that handed out 3 masters’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in West Lafayette, Indiana, this large public school handed out 6 degrees to qualified masters’s botany students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, 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 93%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Miami University - Oxford. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Oxford, Ohio, this fairly large public school awarded 2 degrees to qualified masters’s botany students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. 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%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Great Lakes Region. Athens, Ohio 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.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #5 spot on the list. UIUC is a public institution located in Champaign, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
Michigan State University ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Michigan State is located in East Lansing, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s botany degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
University of Wisconsin - Madison did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #7. University of Wisconsin - Madison is a public institution located in Madison, Wisconsin. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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 95%.
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Kent State University at Kent landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in Kent, Ohio, this large public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s botany students in 2020-2021.
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