2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$33,200
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 207 people earned their degree in poultry science, making the major the 798th most popular in the United States.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 154 poultry science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,724 and $23,030 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in poultry science. That schools that top this list have a program in poultry science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree poultry science students.
Top 8 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Poultry Science
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s poultry science degrees to 16 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%.
Read full report on Poultry Science at Mississippi State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major list. This large school is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and it awarded 18 bachelors’s poultry science degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Poultry Science at UARK
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #3 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - College Station is a public institution located in College Station, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 68 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
Read more about Poultry Science at Texas A&M College Station
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #4 spot on the list. This large school is located in Athens, Georgia, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s poultry science degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Poultry Science at University of Georgia
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major. Raleigh, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s poultry science degrees to 17 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
Read more about Poultry Science at North Carolina State University
With a ranking of #6, Auburn University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major list. Auburn University is located in Auburn, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 18 bachelors’s poultry science degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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 93%.
Read more about Poultry Science at Auburn
Stephen F Austin State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major ranking, coming in at #7. SFASU is a fairly large school located in Nacogdoches, Texas that handed out 1 bachelors’s poultry science degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Stephen F Austin State University Poultry Science Report
University of Wisconsin - Madison came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Poultry Science Major ranking. UW - Madison is a large school located in Madison, Wisconsin that handed out 0 bachelors’s poultry science degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of Wisconsin - Madison Poultry Science Report
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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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