by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in Louisiana” ranking - to help you make that 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 Louisiana, there were 114 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,323 and $22,484 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 112 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,566 and $28,067 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in Louisiana” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in Louisiana” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana bachelor’s degree animal science students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Louisiana Tech is a fairly large school located in Ruston, Louisiana that handed out 34 bachelors’s animal science degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in Louisiana. Louisiana State University is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 78 bachelors’s animal science degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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