2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in the Rocky Mountains Region

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” 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 the Rocky Mountains region, there were 479 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,941 and $22,813 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree animal science students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming

#16 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wyoming. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. UW is a public institution located in Laramie, Wyoming. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Animal Science at University of Wyoming

2

University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#21 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Idaho. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Moscow, Idaho is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s animal science degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Idaho Animal Science Report

3

Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Fort Collins, Colorado

#6 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. This large school is located in Fort Collins, Colorado, and it awarded 10 masters’s animal science degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Animal Science at Colorado State

4

Utah State University
Logan, Utah

#13 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Utah State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Located in Logan, Utah, this large public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified masters’s animal science students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

Full USU Animal Science Report

• Most Focused Master’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.