2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Poultry Science in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Poultry Science is the 798th most popular major in the country with 214 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 135 poultry science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 poultry science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in poultry science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in poultry science.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Poultry Science in the Southeast Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas landed the #1 spot on the list. UARK is a large school located in Fayetteville, Arkansas that handed out 4 doctorate’s poultry science degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Poultry Science at University of Arkansas
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school handed out 5 degrees to qualified doctorate’s poultry science students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full UGA Poultry Science Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major in the Southeast Region. Mississippi State University is a public institution located in Mississippi State, Mississippi. The school has a large population, and it awarded 25 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Mississippi State University Poultry Science Report
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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