2023 Schools Highly Focused on Animal Training Major

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Animal Training is the 1111th most popular major in the country with 68 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Animal Training Major” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in animal training. That schools that top this list have a program in animal training in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools Highly Focused on Animal Training Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for animal training students.

Top 4 Most Focused Colleges for Animal Training

1

Bergin University of Canine Studies
Penngrove, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bergin University of Canine Studies. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Animal Training Major list. Bergin University of Canine Studies is located in Penngrove, California and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 16 ’s animal training degrees to qualified students.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Bergin University of Canine Studies Animal Training Report

2

Lamar Community College
Lamar, Colorado

$35,899 Average Early-Career Earnings

$7,892 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lamar Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Animal Training Major. Lamar, Colorado is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s animal training degrees to 19 students in 2021-2022.

Read more about Animal Training at Lamar Community College

3

Saint Francis University
Loretto, Pennsylvania

$58,971 Average Early-Career Earnings

$31,390 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Francis University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools Highly Focused on Animal Training Major. Loretto, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s animal training degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, 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 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Saint Francis University Animal Training Report

4

SUNY Cobleskill
Cobleskill, New York

$34,851 Average Early-Career Earnings

$17,926 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Cobleskill. The school came in at #4 for the Schools Highly Focused on Animal Training Major. Located in Cobleskill, New York, this small public school handed out 23 degrees to qualified ’s animal training students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full SUNY Cobleskill Animal Training Report

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 Corey Hensley.