2022 Best Value Botany Schools in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Botany Schools in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 730 people earned their degree in botany/plant biology, making the major the 257th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, botany/plant biology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $18,133 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 2 botany/plant biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great botany/plant biology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the botany/plant biology program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Botany Schools in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Botany Schools in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology (Income $48-$75k) in Colorado

#1

Colorado State University - Fort Collins

Fort Collins, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$15,927 Average Net Price

$41,486 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Botany Schools in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Fort Collins landed the #1 spot on the list. Colorado State University - Fort Collins is a large school located in Fort Collins, Colorado that handed out 2 ’s botany degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Colorado State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in Colorado” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins is $15,927 for Colorado Botany students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 3.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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• Best Value Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology (Income $48-$75k) in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Best Value Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology (Income $48-$75k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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