2025 Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Southeast Region
4Colleges in the Southeast Region
153Botany Degrees Awarded
$32,721Avg Early-Career Salary
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in botany/plant biology. It is ranked #259 out of 395 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 153 degrees in botany/plant biology annually.
Your choice of botany/plant biology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Botany/Plant Biology 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.
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Best Schools for Botany/Plant Biology in the Southeast Region
The schools below may not offer all types of botany degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Florida is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in botany/plant biology. Located in the city of Gainesville, UF is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #56 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UF is a great university overall.
There were roughly 37 botany/plant biology students who graduated with this degree at UF in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat North Carolina State University if you want to pursue a degree in botany/plant biology. NC State is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Raleigh. This university ranks 4th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 47 botany/plant biology students who graduated with this degree at NC State in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the botany program state that they receive average early career earnings of $33,009.
University of Georgia is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in botany/plant biology. Located in the midsize city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #69 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UGA is a great university overall.
There were approximately 20 botany/plant biology students who graduated with this degree at UGA in the most recent data year.
Mississippi State University is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in botany/plant biology. Located in the remote town of Mississippi State, Mississippi State is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 24 colleges for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were about 23 botany/plant biology 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).
Your choice of botany/plant biology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Botany/Plant Biology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
