2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology in Washington

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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Botany Major in Washington” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Botany/Plant Biology is the 259th most popular major in the country with 691 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Washington, there were 30 botany/plant biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 botany/plant biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,201 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Botany Major in Washington” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in botany/plant biology. That schools that top this list have a program in botany/plant biology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Botany Major in Washington

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Botany Major in Washington”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology in Washington

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Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

#3 overall quality in Washington

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Botany Major in Washington list. Located in Pullman, Washington, this large public school handed out 13 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s botany students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Botany/Plant Biology at Washington State University

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University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#1 overall quality in Washington

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Botany Major in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. UW Seattle is a large school located in Seattle, Washington that handed out 8 doctorate’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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 93%.

Full UW Seattle Botany/Plant Biology Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Doctor’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.