2024 Best Botany Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
3Colleges in the Far Western US Region
16Master's Degrees
Botany is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #584 out of the 1172 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for botany students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 16 master's degrees in botany during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Botany School for Your Master's Degree
The botany master'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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other botany students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized botany related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for botany students working on their master's degree.
The botany 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 Botany Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Botany in the Far Western US Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for botany students seeking a a master's degree.
Top Far Western US Region Schools for a Master's in Botany
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.