2022 Best Value Animal Science Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Animal Science Schools for an Associate in the Plains States 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 Plains States region, there were 1,114 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,850 and $20,149 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 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.

More Ways to Rank Animal Science Schools

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 Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Animal Science Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree animal science students.

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

#1

Northeast Community College

Norfolk, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$8,749 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeast Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Animal Science Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region list. Located in Norfolk, Nebraska, this medium-sized public school awarded 13 degrees to qualified associates’s animal science students in 2019-2020.

Northeast also took the #1 spot in our “Best Animal Science Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $8,749 for plains states region associate degree animal science students per year to attend Northeast.

Full Northeast Community College Animal Science Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Animal Science

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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