2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Animal Science in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Animal Science Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Animal Science is the 96th most popular major in the country with 8,086 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, animal science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,818 and had an average of $20,002 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,037 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,075 and $21,765 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 68 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great animal science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the animal science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Animal Science Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Animal Science Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Animal Science Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Animal Science in the Southeast Region

#1

Wayne Community College

Goldsboro, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$2,315 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wayne Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Animal Science Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Wayne Community College is a small school located in Goldsboro, North Carolina that handed out 3 associates’s animal science degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree animal science students list, Wayne Community College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Animal Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Wayne Community College is $2,315 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Animal Science students.

Read more about Animal Science at Wayne Community College

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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

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Billy Hathorn.

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