2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the New England Region

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

Across the New England region, there were 27 botany graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 botany graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in botany. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their botany program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the New England Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Botany in the New England Region

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University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the New England Region list. This fairly large school is located in Durham, New Hampshire, and it awarded 1 masters’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

Read full report on Botany at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

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University of Maine
Orono, Maine

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. UMaine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 8 masters’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.

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 University of Maine

2

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

Top 25% overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the New England Region. University of Massachusetts Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s botany degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Botany at University of Massachusetts Amherst

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University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Vermont. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the New England Region. UVM is a fairly large public school situated in Burlington, Vermont. It awarded 7 masters’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full UVM Botany Report

• Most Focused Master’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.