2025 Best Botany/Plant Biology Doctor's Degree Schools

a doctor's degree in botany/plant biology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #80 out of 306 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

College Factual looked at 8 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Botany/Plant Biology Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 213 doctor's degrees in botany/plant biology to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Botany/Plant Biology School for Your Doctor's Degree

The botany doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality botany program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 botany/plant biology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of botany/plant biology students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• 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 botany/plant biology students go into to obtain their doctor'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 botany/plant biology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for botany/plant biology students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Botany/Plant Biology Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Botany/Plant Biology Doctor's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Botany/Plant Biology in the United States

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for botany/plant biology students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top Schools for a Doctorate in Botany

1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN

16 Annual Graduates

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a great choice for students pursuing a doctor's degree in botany/plant biology. UMN Twin Cities is a fairly large public university located in the city of Minneapolis.More information about a doctorate in botany/plant biology from University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

2

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

16 Annual Graduates

University of Florida is a great option for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in botany/plant biology. UF is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Gainesville.More information about a doctorate in botany/plant biology from University of Florida

3

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI

12 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in botany/plant biology needs to look into University of Wisconsin - Madison. UW - Madison is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Madison.More information about a doctorate in botany/plant biology from University of Wisconsin - Madison

4

Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ

10 Annual Graduates

Rutgers University - New Brunswick is a good choice for students pursuing a doctor's degree in botany/plant biology. Located in the small city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in botany/plant biology from Rutgers University - New Brunswick

5

University of Georgia
Athens, GA

13 Annual Graduates

UGA is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Athens.More information about a doctorate in botany/plant biology from University of Georgia

6

University of California - Riverside
Riverside, CA

12 Annual Graduates

UCR is a fairly large public university located in the city of Riverside.More information about a doctorate in botany/plant biology from University of California - Riverside

7

University of California - Davis
Davis, CA

12 Annual Graduates

UC Davis is a very large public university located in the small suburb of Davis.More information about a doctorate in botany/plant biology from University of California - Davis

8

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN

10 Annual Graduates

Located in the small city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in botany/plant biology from Purdue University - Main Campus

Botany/Plant Biology by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Botany/Plant Biology Related Rankings by Major

One of 14 majors within the Biological & Biomedical Sciences area of study, Botany/Plant Biology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Botany Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Botany	96
Plant Pathology/Phytopathology	78
Other Botany/Plant Biology	25
Plant Physiology	8
Plant Molecular Biology	6

Most Popular Majors Related to Botany

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Biology	1,911
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	1,118
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	950
Neurobiology & Neurosciences	822
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences	812
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	658
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology	646
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics	606
Pharmacology & Toxicology	424
Genetics	374

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.