2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in New York

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 New York, there were 286 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,550 and $15,264 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 197 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,973 and $22,589 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in animal science. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great animal science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the animal science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 a Bachelor’s in New York” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in New York

#1

SUNY Cobleskill

Cobleskill, New York

#2 in overall quality

$16,647 Average Net Price

$29,429 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Cobleskill. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York. Cobleskill, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s animal science degrees to 97 students in 2019-2020.

SUNY Cobleskill did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Animal Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” list. The estimated yearly cost for SUNY Cobleskill is $16,647 for New York Bachelor’s Degree Animal Science students.

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#2

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

#1 in overall quality

$40,126 Average Net Price

$24,532 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York list. This large school is located in Ithaca, New York, and it awarded 100 bachelors’s animal science degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Cornell, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Animal Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Cornell is $40,126 for New York Bachelor’s Degree Animal Science students.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 1.1% 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 Animal Science at Cornell University

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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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