2022 Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey” ranking - to help you make that 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 New Jersey, there were 77 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,400 and $25,250 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,871 and $95,555 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the animal science program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in New Jersey

#1

Rutgers University - New Brunswick

New Brunswick, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$32,132 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey list. Located in New Brunswick, New Jersey, this large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s animal science students in 2019-2020.

Rutgers New Brunswick also took the #1 spot in our “Best Animal Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Rutgers University - New Brunswick are $32,132, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Animal Science at Rutgers New Brunswick

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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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