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2022 Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

8 Ranked Colleges
30 Degrees Awarded
$33,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Botany Schools for a Master's in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 730 people earned their degree in botany/plant biology, making the major the 257th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, botany/plant biology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $18,133 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 149 botany/plant biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $16,019 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 botany/plant biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in botany/plant biology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great botany/plant biology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the botany/plant biology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree botany students.

Top 8 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology in the Great Lakes Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. UW - Madison is a large public school situated in Madison, Wisconsin. It awarded 2 masters’s botany degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - Madison not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Botany/Plant Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UW - Madison are $25,523, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. West Lafayette, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s botany degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

Purdue also made our “Best Botany/Plant Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #5. Average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue University - Main Campus are $28,794, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Botany/Plant Biology at Purdue University - Main Campus

#8 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. Ohio University - Athens Campus is located in Athens, Ohio and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 masters’s botany degrees to qualified students.

OHIO Athens not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #8 on our “Best Botany/Plant Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ohio University - Athens Campus are $17,712, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#4

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Michigan State University is located in East Lansing, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 masters’s botany degrees to qualified students.

Michigan State also made our “Best Botany/Plant Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #4. Average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan State University are $37,056, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Botany/Plant Biology at Michigan State

#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Miami University - Oxford. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. Miami University - Oxford is located in Oxford, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 masters’s botany degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Miami University - Oxford, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best Botany/Plant Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Miami University - Oxford are $31,697, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Botany/Plant Biology at Miami University - Oxford

#3 in overall quality

Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in Columbus, Ohio, this large public school awarded 6 degrees to qualified masters’s botany students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region master’s degree botany students list, Ohio State has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Botany/Plant Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ohio State are $37,141, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Botany/Plant Biology at Ohio State

#7 in overall quality

With a ranking of #7, Southern Illinois University Carbondale did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 masters’s botany degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SIUC, the school also landed the #7 spot in our “Best Botany/Plant Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are $32,928.

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#8

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois
#2 in overall quality

With a ranking of #8, Northwestern University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Botany Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s botany students in 2019-2020.

Northwestern also made our “Best Botany/Plant Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Northwestern University are $56,567.

Read more about Botany/Plant Biology at Northwestern University

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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