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2023 Best Value Plant Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$27,963 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$57,814 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Plant Sciences Master's Degree School for You

Plant Sciences is the #165 most popular major in the country with 3,175 degrees and certificates awarded 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Plant Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for plant sciences 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 Plant Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for plant sciences majors pursuing a master's degree.

Best Middle Atlantic Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Plant Sciences

#1

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

Our 2023 rankings named Cornell University the best value school in the Middle Atlantic Region for plant sciences students working on their master’s degree. Cornell is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Ithaca.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Cornell are $30,006 per year.

Cornell not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Plant Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.

Full Plant Sciences at Cornell University Report

The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Delaware helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value plant sciences schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . UD is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Newark.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UD are $18,128 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UD also did well on our Best Plant Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Read full report on Plant Sciences at University of Delaware

The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Maryland - College Park helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value plant sciences schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public college with a very large student population.

UMCP graduate students pay an average of $35,755 in tuition and fees each year.

UMCP also claimed a spot on our Best Plant Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

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Best Plant Sciences Colleges by State

Explore the best plant sciences colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 69
New York 71
Maryland 24
New Jersey 22
Delaware 19

One of 16 majors within the area of study, plant sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Plant Sciences

Related Major Annual Graduates
Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians 8,646
Animal Science 8,294
Agricultural Economics & Business 8,098
General Agriculture 3,370
Horticulture 3,234

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Lufa Farms.

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