2025 Best Botany Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
114Botany Degrees Awarded
Botany isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #612 in popularity out of 1506 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Botany Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 114 degrees in botany to qualified students.
Your choice of botany school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Botany School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Botany Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the botany degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Wisconsin - Madison is a great choice for students interested in a degree in botany. Located in the city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #40 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UW - Madison is a great university overall.
There were approximately 13 botany students who graduated with this degree at UW - Madison in the most recent year we have data available.
Miami University - Oxford is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in botany. Miami University - Oxford is a fairly large public university located in the fringe town of Oxford. This university ranks 5th out of 91 colleges for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were roughly 18 botany students who graduated with this degree at Miami University - Oxford in the most recent data year.
Purdue University - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in botany. Purdue is a fairly large public university located in the small city of West Lafayette. A Best Colleges rank of #65 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Purdue is a great university overall.
There were approximately 25 botany students who graduated with this degree at Purdue in the most recent data year.
Ohio University - Athens Campus is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in botany. OHIO Athens is a fairly large public university located in the town of Athens. This university ranks 7th out of 91 schools for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were roughly 16 botany students who graduated with this degree at OHIO Athens in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of botany school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Botany School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
