When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in plant sciences sits in the middle of the road, ranking #143 out of 343 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Plant Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Texas ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 66 master's degrees in plant sciences to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Plant Sciences School for Your Master's Degree
The plant sciences master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on plant sciences students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other plant sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt plant sciences students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized plant sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for plant sciences students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Plant Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Texas ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Texas A&M University - Kingsville is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in plant sciences. Texas A&M Kingsville is a moderately-sized public university located in the town of Kingsville.
Students who graduate with their master's from the plant sciences program state that they receive average early career wages of $51,454.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
The plant sciences master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
