2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Animal Science in the Middle Atlantic 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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 8,294 people earned their degree in animal science, making the major the 92nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, animal science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,680 and had an average of $21,798 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 640 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,242 and $22,807 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 44 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,164 and $17,633 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in animal science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their animal science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Animal Science in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

SUNY Cobleskill
Cobleskill, New York

$27,907 Average Early-Career Earnings

$12,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Cobleskill. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This small school is located in Cobleskill, New York, and it awarded 30 associates’s animal science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Animal Science at SUNY Cobleskill

2

Harcum College
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Harcum College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified associates’s animal science students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Harcum College Animal Science Report

3

Morrisville State College
Morrisville, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Morrisville State College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Morrisville State College is a small school located in Morrisville, New York that handed out 5 associates’s animal science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Animal Science at Morrisville State College

• Most Focused 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.