If you plan on majoring in animal science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #92 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for animal science students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 239 degrees in animal science annually.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Animal Science Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of animal science degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is difficult to beat Cornell University if you wish to pursue a degree in animal science. Cornell is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Ithaca.
Graduates who receive their degree from the animal science program make an average of $36,204 in their early career salary.
Every student who is interested in animal science has to look into SUNY Cobleskill. Located in the town of Cobleskill, SUNY Cobleskill is a public school with a small student population.
Animal Science degree recipients from SUNY Cobleskill receive an earnings boost of around $2,194 above the average earnings of animal science graduates.
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).
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