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2023 Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

9 Colleges
$36,050 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$30,520 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Botany/Plant Biology School for You

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, botany/plant biology was ranked #197 in the country. In fact 371 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 9 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for botany students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for botany majors pursuing a .

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Botany/Plant Biology

Our analysis found University of Wisconsin - Madison to be the best value school for botany/plant biology students who want to pursue a degree in the Great Lakes Region . UW - Madison is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Madison.

UW - Madison undergraduate students pay an average of $38,608 in tuition and fees each year.

UW - Madison excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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$22,810 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. OHIO Athens is a fairly large public school located in the town of Athens.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at OHIO Athens are $22,810 per year.

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#3

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Purdue is a very large public school located in the city of West Lafayette.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Purdue are $28,794 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Purdue also is in the top 10% of our Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.

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#4

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Michigan State University is a great value for botany/plant biology students. Located in the city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Michigan State are $41,290 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Michigan State also is in the top 10% of our Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.

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The excellent programs at Ohio State University - Main Campus helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best botany/plant biology schools in the Great Lakes Region . Ohio State is a very large public school located in the large city of Columbus.

Ohio State undergraduate students pay an average of $35,019 in tuition and fees each year.

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$36,288 Average Tuition & Fees

Miami University - Oxford came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Miami University - Oxford is a large public school located in the town of Oxford.

Miami University - Oxford undergraduate students pay an average of $36,288 in tuition and fees each year.

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$15,240 Average Tuition & Fees

Southern Illinois University Carbondale came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in the small city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at SIUC are $15,240 a year.

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#7

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

Northwestern University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Northwestern are $60,768 a year.

Northwestern not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Champaign.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UIUC are $37,632 per year.

UIUC also took the #5 spot in our Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.

Full Botany/Plant Biology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Report

Best Botany/Plant Biology Colleges by State

Explore the best botany/plant biology schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 19
Illinois 27
Ohio 22
Indiana 14
Wisconsin 10

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One of 14 majors within the area of study, botany/plant biology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
General Biology 8,920
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology 3,221
Physiology & Pathology Sciences 2,488
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics 2,290
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology 1,964

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 9 schools only.

  • 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.

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