Best Animal Science Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best Animal Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Animal Science School for Your Doctor's Degree

The animal science doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality animal science program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to animal science students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of animal science students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for animal science to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized animal science related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for animal science students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

Because of lacking data, we couldn't provide you with the animal science quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer animal science and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, take a look at at some of our other Animal Science rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Animal Science ranking.

Best Animal Science Colleges by State

Explore the best animal science colleges for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	122	5
Minnesota	120	1
Iowa	110	8
Kansas	97	6
Nebraska	70	13
North Dakota	68	1
South Dakota	45	10

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Animal Science Related Rankings by Major

One of 18 majors within the Agriculture & Agriculture Operations area of study, Animal Science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Animal Science Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Animal Sciences, General	32
Dairy Science	2

Majors Similar to Animal Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Veterinary Medicine	497
Plant Sciences	57
Food Science Technology	29
Veterinary Biomedical and Clinical Sciences	24
Soil Sciences	9
Agricultural Economics & Business	5
Agricultural Production	4
Agricultural Public Services	1

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Billy Hathorn. More about our data sources and methodologies.