2025 Best Botany/Plant Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in botany/plant biology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #80 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Botany/Plant Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 48 doctor's degrees in botany/plant biology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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/plant biology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of botany/plant biology students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt botany/plant biology students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized botany/plant biology related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for botany/plant biology students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Botany/Plant Biology Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Botany/Plant Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Botany/Plant Biology in the Far Western US Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in botany/plant biology.

Top Far Western US Region Schools for a Doctorate in Botany

1

University of California - Riverside
Riverside, CA

12 Annual Graduates

University of California - Riverside is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in botany/plant biology. UCR is a fairly large public university located in the city of Riverside.More information about a doctorate in botany/plant biology from University of California - Riverside

2

University of California - Davis
Davis, CA

12 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in botany/plant biology has to check out University of California - Davis. UC Davis is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Davis.More information about a doctorate in botany/plant biology from University of California - Davis

Best Botany/Plant Biology Colleges by State

Explore the best botany/plant biology schools for a specific state in the Far Western US Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	180	27
Washington	122	13
Oregon	107	4
Hawaii	53	2

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Botany/Plant Biology Related Rankings by Major

One of 14 majors within the Biological & Biomedical Sciences area of study, Botany/Plant Biology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Botany Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Botany	30
Plant Pathology/Phytopathology	11
Other Botany/Plant Biology	4
Plant Molecular Biology	3

Majors Similar to Botany

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Biology	228
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	210
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	196
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences	145
Neurobiology & Neurosciences	136
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics	118
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology	81
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	79
Pharmacology & Toxicology	76
Genetics	52

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.