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

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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 Georgia, there were 156 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,052 and $21,951 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in Georgia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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

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

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

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Fort Valley State University
Fort Valley, Georgia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’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 7 masters’s animal science degrees to qualified students.

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University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in Georgia. University of Georgia is located in Athens, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 masters’s animal science degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

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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

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