2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Animal Sciences, General in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 7,530 people earned their degree in animal sciences, general, making the major the 106th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 341 animal sciences, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 17 animal sciences, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,012 and $13,730 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in animal sciences, general. That schools that top this list have a program in animal sciences, general in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree animal science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Animal Sciences, General in the New England Region

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Top 5% overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the New England Region list. University of Connecticut is a large school located in Storrs, Connecticut that handed out 15 associates’s animal science degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Read more about Animal Sciences, General at UCONN

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University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal Science Major in the New England Region list. University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Durham, New Hampshire that handed out 2 associates’s animal science degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, 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 87%.

Read more about Animal Sciences, General at UNH

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Billy Hathorn.