2025 Best Zoology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Kansas

Zoology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #125 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Kansas to determine which ones were the best for zoology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 41 bachelor's degrees in zoology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on zoology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of zoology students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt zoology students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for zoology students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Zoology Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Zoology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Kansas ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Zoology in Kansas

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in zoology.

Top Kansas Schools for a Bachelor's in Zoology

1

Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS

26 Annual Graduates

$26,843 Median Starting Salary

$25,699 Median Student Debt

Kansas State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in zoology. Located in the city of Manhattan, K -State is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the zoology program report average early career earnings of $26,843.

More information about a bachelor’s in zoology from Kansas State University

2

Friends University
Wichita, KS

15 Annual Graduates

$24,692 Median Starting Salary

Friends University is a good choice for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in zoology. Located in the large city of Wichita, Friends University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the zoology program make around $24,692 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a bachelor’s in zoology from Friends University

Best Zoology Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Zoology Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	215	6
Iowa	197	0
Nebraska	180	7
North Dakota	149	5

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Rankings in Majors Related to Zoology

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

Zoology Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Wildlife Biology	41

Most Popular Majors Related to Zoology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Biology	527
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	195
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	142
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences	84
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology	81
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	40
Biotechnology	11

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.