Is there such thing as a Botany college?

College Search & Lists
1

<p>Well like I think it would be cool to study plants then go and research how they can help people. Like medical help.</p>

2

<p>Many of the better Botany programs are at the large public universities that have a College of Agriculture. Some of those departments will be focused on food plants. You also should run some searches for programs in Ethnobotany which is the study of how people use plants. You would get to go on research expeditions to remote locations, hang out with the local people, and talk with them about what plants they use for food and medicine. These programs might be inside an Anthropology department, rather than inside a Botany department.</p>

3

<p>Oh well then I will just do Biomedical Engineering instead. They’re somewhat related aren’t they?</p>

4

<p>Botany is usually a choice under the Biology major sub-category or under Plant Studies. Your very large state universities will likely have such a sub-major & your ivies, but not small public schools or liberal arts schools. Think of something like Purdue or Illinois given that they are farm states. NJ is the garden state & I know Rutgers features Botany, Plant science, forestry, Plant pathology. Also I would check into the George, Alabama, Florida, & Texas public universities.</p>

5

<p>Look at UC Berkeley. The reason I mention Berkeley is that there is a radio talk show host that used to be a botanist, and had a PHD from Berkeley, and he travelled to Tahiti and places like that. And then he published a book on healing people with medicinal plants.</p>

6

<p>They do a lot of that sort of thing at Humboldt State, but it’s more of an extracurricular activity.</p>

7

<p>[College</a> of Agriculture and Natural Resources](<a href=“http://www.cag.uconn.edu/CANR/index.html]College”>http://www.cag.uconn.edu/CANR/index.html)</p>

<p>University of Connecticut, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources</p>

8

<p>Check out this ethnobotany link:</p>

<p>[Ethnobotany:</a> Higher Education Courses](<a href=“http://www.kew.org/science/eblinks/educ.html]Ethnobotany:”>http://www.kew.org/science/eblinks/educ.html)</p>

<p>I was given in this thread:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1192349-colleges-well-known-tropical-botany.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1192349-colleges-well-known-tropical-botany.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>It’s a great link.</p>

9

<p>Check out SUNY ESF, where majors include biotech, conservation bio, environmentail bio, forest health, natural history, and wildlife bio.</p>

10

<p>Hey one more question:
Does JHU have a botany program?</p>

11

<p>

Several decades ago, Hopkins had fairly good offerings in zoology, botany, anatomy and physiology, etc. Unlike schools like Cornell and Wisconsin, however, which have become very strong in a number of different areas, it scrapped all of those offerings to pour money into one research area. Even the university’s botanic garden was completely uprooted and replanted for an aesthetic rather than educational purpose. Consequently, JHU is extremely weak in anything relating to ecology or organismal biology, but it does well in molecular biology, neuroscience, biophysics, etc. </p>

<p>In other words, no.</p>

12

<p>Ohio State University has a Department of Horticulture and Crop Science.</p>

13

<p>The University of Wisconsin has botany in the college of Letters and Science as well as several plant related majors in the College of Agriculture.</p>

14

<p>What about the Lyman Briggs School at Michigan State University?</p>

15

<p>“study plants then go and research how they can help people. Like medical help.”</p>

<p>Sounds like you might be interested in Herbal Medicine schools, and perhaps becoming a Naturalist Doctor (N.D.) in the future at the graduate level. Anyway, here is one of the oldest and most respectable undergrad Plant Biology Dept. in the nation. G’Luck! :)</p>

<p>[Home</a> | Plant Biology Department at Michigan State University](<a href=“http://www.plantbiology.msu.edu/]Home”>http://www.plantbiology.msu.edu/)</p>

16

<p>^Thanks I’ll check them out. And look up more about N.D.'s </p>

<p>What about WUST?</p>