2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the Southeast 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 Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 177 zoology/animal biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 zoology/animal biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in zoology/animal biology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in zoology/animal biology.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The zoology 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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the Southeast Region”.

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

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

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

1

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

#14 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 9 masters’s zoology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Zoology/Animal Biology at North Carolina State University

2

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Florida. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Gainesville, Florida, this large public school handed out 40 degrees to qualified masters’s zoology students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Zoology/Animal Biology at UF

• 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.