2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in Georgia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in Georgia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Georgia, there were 156 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,052 and $21,951 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 125 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,491 and $29,433 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in Georgia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in animal science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in animal science.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in Georgia

The colleges and universities below are the best for georgia bachelor’s degree animal science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in Georgia

1

Fort Valley State University
Fort Valley, Georgia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Fort Valley State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Fort Valley State University is located in Fort Valley, Georgia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s animal science degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Animal Science at Fort Valley State University

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University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

$33,052 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,951 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in Georgia list. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school awarded 114 degrees to qualified bachelors’s animal science students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 more about Animal Science at UGA

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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

• *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.