2025 Best Botany/Plant Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
2Colleges in the Southeast Region
47Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in botany/plant biology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #80 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Botany/Plant Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 47 doctor's degrees in botany/plant biology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor'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 botany/plant biology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other botany/plant biology students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
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 botany/plant biology to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
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.
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 in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college 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.
by our College Data Analytics Team
