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2023 Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$31,214 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Botany/Plant Biology School for You

In 2020-2021, 33 degrees and certificates were awarded to botany/plant biology students who went to a Illinois college or university. This makes it the #224 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Illinois 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.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in Illinois

Check out the botany programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality in Botany/Plant Biology

$15,240 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Southern Illinois University Carbondale the best value school in Illinois for botany/plant biology students. Located in the small city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public school with a large student population.

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

Read full report on Botany/Plant Biology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

$17,634 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in Illinois list. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Champaign.

UIUC undergraduate students pay an average of $17,634 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UIUC also took the #3 spot in our Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in Illinois rankings.

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

#3

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL
$60,768 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Northwestern University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best botany/plant biology schools in Illinois. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Northwestern are $60,768 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Northwestern is ranked #1 for overall quality for botany in Illinois.

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Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 31
Ohio 62
Indiana 26
Wisconsin 27

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

Related Major Annual Graduates
General Biology 107,165
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology 14,535
Neurobiology & Neurosciences 11,615
Physiology & Pathology Sciences 8,813
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology 7,247

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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