2025 Best Botany/Plant Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in California
2Colleges in California
34Doctor's Degrees
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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for botany/plant biology students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 34 doctor's degrees in botany/plant biology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for botany/plant biology students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Botany/Plant Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in California list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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.
by our College Data Analytics Team
