Best Botany/Plant Biology Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Southwest Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Southwest Region that made our Best Botany/Plant Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Botany/Plant Biology School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of botany/plant biology for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to botany/plant biology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other botany/plant biology students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for botany/plant biology to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized botany/plant biology related body.

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

Insufficient Data for the Southwest Region

Regrettably , we did not have enough info to form a ranking of the top quality schools for botany/plant biology in the Southwest Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Southwest Region that both offer botany/plant biology and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Botany/Plant Biology rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology ranking.

Best Botany/Plant Biology Colleges by State

Explore the best botany/plant biology colleges for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	165	16
Arizona	119	1
Oklahoma	92	3

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Rankings in Majors Related to Botany

Botany/Plant Biology is one of 14 different types of Biological & Biomedical Sciences programs to choose from.

Botany Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Plant Pathology/Phytopathology	6
Botany	5
Plant Physiology	3

Majors Similar to Botany

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Biology	177
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	110
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences	90
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	86
Neurobiology & Neurosciences	68
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics	55
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology	47
Genetics	46
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	46
Pharmacology & Toxicology	32

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.