2022 Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology in Illinois

A doctor's degree in botany/plant biology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #80 out of 295 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many colleges that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2022 Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology in Illinois ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 11 doctor's degrees in botany/plant biology to qualified students.

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

The botany doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. As an aid in helping you pick the right school for you, we created our Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology in Illinois ranking.

Being popular does not always equate to overall quality, but a school with a large number of botany/plant biology students usually has them for a reason. Sometimes this is because the school offers a great educational experience, it is a good value, or it is highly focused on the program.

One Size Does Not Fit All

This is not our only ranking, nor the only degree level we have ranked. In addition to this ranking, you may want to take at the rankings for different degree levels as called out above. You can also narrow your search by location by filtering for a certain area of the country. Plus, you can view our other rankings for botany/plant biology.

Most Popular Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Botany/Plant Biology in Illinois

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

Most Well Attended Schools for Botany Students Working on Their Doctorate

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

8 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#2 Best Quality In IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in botany/plant biology needs to take a look at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a very large student population. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #2 in quality for doctor's degrees in botany/plant biology in Illinois.

There were approximately 8 botany/plant biology individuals who graduated with this degree at UIUC in the most recent year we have data available.

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, IL

2 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#3 Best Quality In IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

You'll be surrounded by many like-minded peers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in botany/plant biology. Located in the small city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public university with a large student population. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #3 in quality for doctor's degrees in botany/plant biology in Illinois.

There were roughly 2 botany/plant biology individuals who graduated with this degree at SIUC in the most recent data year.

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Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

1 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#1 Best Quality In IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Northwestern University is a popular choice for students pursuing a doctor's degree in botany/plant biology. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Evanston. You also may be intersted to know that the school ranks #1 in quality for doctor's degrees in botany/plant biology in Illinois.

There were approximately 1 botany/plant biology individuals who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent data year.

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Best Botany/Plant Biology Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Most Popular Botany/Plant Biology Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	149	14
Ohio	144	10
Indiana	130	7
Wisconsin	104	12

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Rankings in Majors Related to Botany

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

Botany Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Botany	10
Other Botany/Plant Biology	1

Majors Similar to Botany

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Neurobiology & Neurosciences	49
General Biology	46
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	43
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences	37
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology	26
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	24
Pharmacology & Toxicology	10
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	9
Genetics	7
Zoology	6

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.