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 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Botany Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 84 degrees in botany annually.
The botany program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Botany rankings. 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.
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 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 Schools in the Southeast Region.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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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.
Any student who is interested in botany has to take a look at North Carolina State University. Located in the large city of Raleigh, NC State is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 38 botany students who graduated with this degree at NC State in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in botany has to take a look at University of Georgia. UGA is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Athens. A Best Colleges rank of #69 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UGA is a great university overall.
There were approximately 10 botany students who graduated with this degree at UGA in the most recent data year.
Mississippi State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in botany. Mississippi State is a fairly large public university located in the remote town of Mississippi State. This university ranks 2nd out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were roughly 23 botany students who graduated with this degree at Mississippi State 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).
The botany program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Botany rankings. 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.
