2024 Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in Illinois
3Colleges in Illinois
33Botany Degrees Awarded
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in botany/plant biology. It is ranked #259 out of 395 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 33 degrees in botany/plant biology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The botany program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Botany/Plant Biology rankings. We derive our Best Overall Botany/Plant Biology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The botany school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in Illinois.
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The schools below may not offer all types of botany degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student who is interested in botany/plant biology has to look into Northwestern University. Located in the small city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #5 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Northwestern is a great university overall.
There were about 13 botany/plant biology students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign if you want to pursue a degree in botany/plant biology. UIUC is a fairly large public university located in the city of Champaign. This university ranks 3rd out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 10 botany/plant biology students who graduated with this degree at UIUC in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in botany/plant biology needs to look into Southern Illinois University Carbondale. SIUC is a fairly large public university located in the city of Carbondale. This university ranks 23rd out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 10 botany/plant biology students who graduated with this degree at SIUC in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The botany program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Botany/Plant Biology rankings. We derive our Best Overall Botany/Plant Biology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
