2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Zoology/Animal Biology in the New England Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Zoology/Animal Biology is the 322nd most popular major in the country with 1,674 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 58 zoology/animal biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 zoology/animal biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in zoology/animal biology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their zoology/animal biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Zoology/Animal Biology in the New England Region

1

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region list. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified masters’s zoology students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Maine Zoology/Animal Biology Report

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University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region list. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s zoology degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Zoology/Animal Biology at University of Rhode Island

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Zoology/Animal Biology

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.