by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 216 people earned their degree in dairy science, making the major the 817th most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 38 dairy science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 dairy science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in dairy science. That schools that top this list have a program in dairy science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree dairy science students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major in the Plains States Region list. South Dakota State University is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 18 bachelors’s dairy science degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s dairy science degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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