Botany Plant Biology

A program that focuses on the scientific study of plants, related microbial organisms, and plant habitats and ecosystem relations. Includes instruction in plant anatomy and structure, phytochemistry, cytology, plant genetics, plant morphology and physiology, plant ecology, plant taxonomy and systematics, paleobotany, and applications of biophysics and molecular biology.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 38 institutions across the United States, with a total of 1559 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

certificates awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

320

degrees awarded

Master's Degrees

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

degrees awarded

Other Awards

1,044

awards given

Top Schools for Botany Plant Biology

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh, NC	142
2	Oregon State University Corvallis, OR	111
3	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	96
4	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	90
5	Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS	78
6	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	78
7	Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH	75
8	California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt Arcata, CA	63
9	University of California-Riverside Riverside, CA	60
10	University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI	60
11	Ohio University-Main Campus Athens, OH	57
12	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	54
13	University of Vermont Burlington, VT	51
14	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	51
15	University of Georgia Athens, GA	42
16	University of Maine Orono, ME	42
17	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	36
18	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	33
19	Oklahoma State University-Main Campus Stillwater, OK	33
20	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	33
21	Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Carbondale, IL	30
22	University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE	30
23	Weber State University Ogden, UT	28
24	Connecticut College New London, CT	24
25	Utah Valley University Orem, UT	24
26	Kent State University at Kent Kent, OH	21
27	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK	18
28	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	15
29	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	15
30	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	15
31	Claremont Graduate University Claremont, CA	9
32	Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, OH	9
33	University of Wyoming Laramie, WY	9
34	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	9
35	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	6
36	Washington State University Pullman, WA	6
37	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	3
38	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ	3