2023 Most Well Attended Zoology Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Zoology Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” 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 “Most Well Attended Zoology Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in zoology/animal biology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular zoology/animal biology programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Zoology Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree zoology students.

Top 2 Most Popular 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

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Zoology Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the #1 spot on the list. North Carolina State University is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s zoology degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Zoology/Animal Biology at NC State

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 Most Well Attended Zoology Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. This large school is located in Gainesville, Florida, and it awarded 40 masters’s zoology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Zoology/Animal Biology at University of Florida

• Most Popular 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.