If you're seeking a degree in animal health, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #1291 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for animal health students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 21 degrees in animal health to qualified students.
Your choice of animal health school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Animal Health School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Animal Health Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.
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Best Schools for Animal Health in the United States
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the animal health degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is hard to beat University of Georgia if you want to pursue a degree in animal health. UGA is a fairly large public university located in the city of Athens. This university ranks 3rd out of 68 colleges for overall quality in the state of Georgia.
There were approximately 5 animal health students who graduated with this degree at UGA in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in animal health. UIUC is a very large public university located in the city of Champaign. A Best Colleges rank of #34 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UIUC is a great university overall.More information about a degree in animal health from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
It is hard to beat University of Nebraska - Lincoln if you want to pursue a degree in animal health. Located in the large city of Lincoln, UNL is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 19 colleges for overall quality in the state of Nebraska.More information about a degree in animal health from University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Animal Health by Region
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
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Your choice of animal health school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Animal Health School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
