2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dairy Science in the Plains States Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$23,300
Avg Cost*
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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Dairy Science is the 817th most popular major in the country with 191 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 33 dairy science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 dairy science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in dairy science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their dairy science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The dairy science 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major in the Plains States Region”.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dairy Science in the Plains States Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Brookings, South Dakota, this fairly large public school handed out 23 degrees to qualified bachelors’s dairy science students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Dairy Science at South Dakota State
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major in the Plains States Region list. Iowa State is a public institution located in Ames, Iowa. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.
Read full report on Dairy Science at Iowa State
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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
- *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.
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