2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in the Far Western US Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Animal Science is the 92nd most popular major in the country with 8,294 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Far Western US region, there were 1,063 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,225 and $20,116 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree animal science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in the Far Western US Region

1

Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Pullman, Washington is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s animal science degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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 Washington State University

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Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Far Western US Region list. Corvallis, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s animal science degrees to 86 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Oregon State Animal Science Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s 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

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