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2023 Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$20,541 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Botany/Plant Biology School for You

Botany/Plant Biology is the #264 most popular major in the country with 691 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which ones offered the best value programs for botany students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Best Rocky Mountains Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Botany/Plant Biology

Our analysis found Weber State University to be the best value school for botany/plant biology students who want to pursue a degree in the Rocky Mountains Region . Located in the city of Ogden, WSU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

WSU undergraduate students pay an average of $16,644 in tuition and fees each year.

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#2

University of Wyoming

Laramie, WY

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Wyoming is a great value for botany/plant biology students. Located in the remote town of Laramie, UW is a public school with a large student population.

UW undergraduate students pay an average of $16,957 in tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent programs at Utah Valley University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best botany/plant biology schools in the Rocky Mountains Region . Located in the small city of Orem, UVU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UVU are $17,092 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UVU also is in the top 15% of our Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Colorado State is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Colorado State are $31,470 per year.

Colorado State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Botany/Plant Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list.

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Best Botany/Plant Biology Colleges by State

Explore the best botany/plant biology colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 3
Utah 19
Idaho 0
Montana 0
Wyoming 5

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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 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 4 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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