2025 Best Plant Sciences Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
58Plant Sciences Degrees Awarded
$44,333Avg Early-Career Salary
Plant Sciences isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #164 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Plant Sciences Schools in the New England Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 58 degrees in plant sciences annually.
Your choice of plant sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for plant sciences schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The plant sciences school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Plant Sciences Schools in the New England Region.
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Best Schools for Plant Sciences in the New England Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the plant sciences degree levels they offer.
University of Connecticut is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in plant sciences. UCONN is a very large public university located in the town of Storrs. A Best Colleges rank of #57 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UCONN is a great university overall.
There were about 11 plant sciences students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Massachusetts Amherst is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in plant sciences. UMass Amherst is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Amherst. This university ranks 10th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 16 plant sciences students who graduated with this degree at UMass Amherst in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, plant sciences degree recipients usually earn around $37,170 in their early careers.
University of Vermont is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in plant sciences. Located in the city of Burlington, UVM is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Vermont.
There were roughly 15 plant sciences students who graduated with this degree at UVM in the most recent year we have data available. After graduating, plant sciences degree recipients generally make about $33,221 in their early careers.
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).
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Your choice of plant sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for plant sciences schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
