2025 Best Plant Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
2Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
59Master's Degrees
Plant Sciences is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #143 out of the 343 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for plant sciences students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 59 master's degrees in plant sciences during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to plant sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of plant sciences students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for plant sciences to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized plant sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools 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 the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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
