2024 Best Zoology/Animal Biology Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
23Master's Degrees
Zoology/Animal Biology is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #570 out of the 1172 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for zoology/animal biology students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 23 master's degrees in zoology/animal biology to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Zoology/Animal Biology School for Your Master's Degree
The zoology master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality zoology program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on zoology/animal biology students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of zoology/animal biology students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized zoology/animal biology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for zoology/animal biology students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Zoology/Animal Biology Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Zoology/Animal Biology in the Great Lakes Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in zoology/animal biology.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Zoology
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest of our data about colleges.