2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in West Virginia

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 West Virginia, there were 116 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,200 and $23,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality animal science programs that also have a lower cost than 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. 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 Master’s in West Virginia” 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 Master’s in West Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in West Virginia

#1

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$26,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$47,260 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #1 spot on the list. WVU is a large public school situated in Morgantown, West Virginia. It awarded 8 masters’s animal science degrees in 2019-2020.

WVU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Animal Science Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at WVU are $26,154, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full WVU Animal 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

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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