2022 Best Value Animal Services Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Animal Services Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Animal Services is the 263rd most popular major in the country with 1,058 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, animal services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $19,660 and had an average of $17,032 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 209 animal services graduates with average earnings and debt of $15,000 and $10,963 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 25 animal services graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality animal services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the animal services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The animal services school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Animal Services Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Animal Services Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree animal services students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Animal Services in the Southeast Region

#1

College of Central Florida

Ocala, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$6,548 Average Net Price

$23,649 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of Central Florida. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Animal Services Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. College of Central Florida is a medium-sized school located in Ocala, Florida that handed out 10 associates’s animal services degrees in 2019-2020.

CF also took the #1 spot in our “Best Animal Services Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend College of Central Florida is $6,548 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Animal Services students.

Read full report on Animal Services at CF

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Animal Services

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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 Corey Hensley.

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