2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Pathology/Phytopathology Major in the Southwest Region

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 Plant Pathology/Phytopathology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 175 people earned their degree in plant pathology/phytopathology, making the major the 836th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 18 plant pathology/phytopathology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 plant pathology/phytopathology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Pathology/Phytopathology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in plant pathology/phytopathology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their plant pathology/phytopathology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Pathology/Phytopathology Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree plant pathology/phytopathology students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Plant Pathology/Phytopathology in the Southwest Region

1

New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Pathology/Phytopathology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Las Cruces, New Mexico is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s plant pathology/phytopathology degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Plant Pathology/Phytopathology at NMSU Main Campus

2

Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, Texas

#7 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Pathology/Phytopathology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas A&M College Station is a public institution located in College Station, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Texas A&M College Station Plant Pathology/Phytopathology Report

3

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plant Pathology/Phytopathology Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Arizona is a large public school situated in Tucson, Arizona. It awarded 1 masters’s plant pathology/phytopathology degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Plant Pathology/Phytopathology at University of Arizona

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Plant Pathology/Phytopathology

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.