Best Zoology Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best Zoology 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 Zoology School for Your Doctor's Degree

The zoology doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality 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.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 zoology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other zoology students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• 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 much debt zoology students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized zoology related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for zoology students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

Regrettably , we did not have enough info to produce a ranking of the top quality colleges for zoology in the Plains States Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer zoology and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, take a look at at some of our other Zoology rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Zoology ranking.

Best Zoology Colleges by State

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	120	7
Iowa	110	3
Kansas	97	2
Nebraska	70	3
North Dakota	68	1

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Zoology Related Rankings by Major

One of 14 majors within the Biological & Biomedical Sciences area of study, Zoology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Zoology Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Entomology	11
Zoology/Animal Biology	2
Animal Physiology	2

Most Popular Majors Related to Zoology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Biology	90
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	90
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology	78
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics	56
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	51
Neurobiology & Neurosciences	48
Genetics	44
Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other)	40
Botany/Plant Biology	39
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	39

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). More about our data sources and methodologies.