2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in the New England Region

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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 New England region, there were 375 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,481 and $24,499 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in animal science. That schools that top this list have a program in animal science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree animal science students.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in the New England Region

1

University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the New England Region list. Located in Burlington, Vermont, this fairly large public school awarded 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s animal science students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Vermont Animal Science Report

2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the New England Region list. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s animal science students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Read more about Animal Science at UCONN

3

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the New England Region list. This large school is located in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s animal science degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Animal Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst

• 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Billy Hathorn.