by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Dairy Science is the 817th most popular major in the country with 191 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 dairy science graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,735 and $124,256 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in dairy science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in dairy science.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree dairy science students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major. This fairly large school is located in Brookings, South Dakota, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s dairy science degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Dairy Science Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #2 spot on the list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s dairy science degrees to 7 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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