2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Animal Health

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Animal Health Schools for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Animal Health is the 1203rd most popular major in the country with 44 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 23 animal health graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent animal health programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the animal health program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Animal Health Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Animal Health Schools for an Associate.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Animal Health

#1

Harcum College

Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$23,588 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Animal Health Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Harcum College landed the #1 spot on the list. Harcum College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. It awarded 22 associates’s animal health degrees in 2019-2020.

Harcum College also made our “Best Animal Health Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $23,588 for associate degree animal health students per year to attend Harcum College.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Harcum College Animal Health Report

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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