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Most Popular Schools for Botany/Plant Biology Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the scientific study of plants, related microbial organisms, and plant habitats and ecosystem relations. Includes instruction in plant anatomy and structure, phytochemistry, cytology, plant genetics, plant morphology and physiology, plant ecology, plant taxonomy and systematics, paleobotany, and applications of biophysics and molecular biology.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Humboldt State University 34 2% $24,811
2 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 26 0% $23,977
3 Purdue University-Main Campus 26 0% $22,822
4 Mississippi State University 17 0% $24,957
5 Oregon State University 14 0% $26,892
6 University of California-Berkeley 14 0% $38,066
7 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 13 0% $27,638
8 University of Vermont 12 0% $34,210
9 University of Hawaii at Manoa 12 0% $29,858
10 University of California-Davis 11 0% $35,177
11 Michigan State University 11 0% $28,862
12 Miami University-Oxford 11 0% $33,229
13 Ohio University-Main Campus 11 0% $28,986
14 University of California-Riverside 10 0% $35,242
15 University of Wisconsin-Madison 10 0% $26,025
16 University of Wyoming 9 0% $19,960
17 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 8 0% $24,936
18 University of Florida 8 0% $21,211
19 Southern Illinois University-Carbondale 8 0% $29,367
20 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus 7 0% $29,097
21 Utah Valley University 5 0% $6,450
22 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 5 0% $30,913
23 University of Georgia 4 0% $26,688
24 Colorado State University-Fort Collins 4 0% $26,231
25 Washington State University 4 0% $27,484
26 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 4 0% $32,443
27 Kent State University at Kent 4 0% $25,886
28 Connecticut College 3 1% $71,970
29 Ohio Wesleyan University 3 1% $61,910
30 Weber State University 3 0% $20,511
31 University of Maine 2 0% $25,088
32 Cornell University 2 0% $73,904
33 Oklahoma State University-Main Campus 2 0% $24,105
34 The University of Texas at Austin 2 0% $26,506
35 Western New Mexico University 1 0% $22,454
36 North Idaho College 1 0% $14,862
37 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 1 0% $27,898
38 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1 0% $30,102
39 Bennington College 1 1% $73,270
40 North Dakota State University-Main Campus 1 0% $22,436

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Botany/Plant Biology program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.