2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 691 people earned their degree in botany/plant biology, making the major the 259th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, botany/plant biology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $27,599 and had an average of $22,454 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 44 botany/plant biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 botany/plant biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in botany/plant biology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their botany/plant biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree botany students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology in the Southwest Region

1

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

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region list. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It awarded 6 bachelors’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.

Full New Mexico State University - Main Campus Botany/Plant Biology Report

2

Western New Mexico University
Silver City, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western New Mexico University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Silver City, New Mexico, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Botany/Plant Biology at Western New Mexico University

3

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this large public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s botany students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Botany/Plant Biology at OSU

4

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
Norman, Oklahoma

#20 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Botany Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Norman, Oklahoma, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s botany students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Botany/Plant Biology at University of Oklahoma

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology

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.