2024 Best Zoology/Animal Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
159Zoology Degrees Awarded
A degree in zoology/animal biology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #322 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of zoology/animal biology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 159 degrees in zoology/animal biology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of zoology/animal biology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for zoology/animal biology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 the Best Zoology/Animal Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region.
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Best Schools for Zoology/Animal Biology in the Rocky Mountains Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the zoology degree levels they offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in zoology/animal biology needs to look into Colorado State University - Fort Collins. Colorado State is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins. A Best Colleges rank of #156 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Colorado State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 80 zoology/animal biology students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in zoology/animal biology has to take a look at University of Wyoming. UW is a large public university located in the remote town of Laramie. This university ranks 1st out of 7 colleges for overall quality in the state of Wyoming.
There were about 48 zoology/animal biology students who graduated with this degree at UW in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in zoology/animal biology needs to take a look at Weber State University. WSU is a very large public university located in the city of Ogden. This university ranks 6th out of 13 schools for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were roughly 31 zoology/animal biology students who graduated with this degree at WSU in the most recent year we have data available.
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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).