MSc in Botany in Madison United States | University of Wisconsin-Madison

Botany graduate students collaborate with faculty and staff on diverse plant biology projects spanning all organizational levels—from molecular and cellular structures to entire populations, ecosystems, and evolutionary lineages. Key research focuses include evolutionary biology, systematics, molecular and cellular biology, developmental processes, biochemistry, and ecological studies. The program also offers specialized training and research in areas like phycology, bryology, mycology, ethnobotany, paleoecology, conservation ecology, taxonomy, genetics, and plant physiology. Many student projects now integrate multiple disciplines.

Those pursuing interdisciplinary studies will discover extensive resources for coursework, joint research, and seminars across departments including Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Engineering, Entomology, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Genetics, Geography, Geoscience, Integrative Biology, Physics, Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, Plant Breeding/Genetics, Plant Pathology, Statistics, Soil Science, and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Cross-disciplinary collaboration is strongly supported.