2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 1,687 people earned their degree in zoology/animal biology, making the major the 322nd most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 53 zoology/animal biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 52 zoology/animal biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in zoology/animal biology. That schools that top this list have a program in zoology/animal biology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree zoology students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Zoology/Animal Biology in the New England Region

1

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region list. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s zoology degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Zoology/Animal Biology at University of Maine

2

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

Top 25% overall quality in New England

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Hampshire - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Durham, New Hampshire, this fairly large public school handed out 24 degrees to qualified bachelors’s zoology students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Zoology/Animal Biology at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

3

Hampshire College
Amherst, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hampshire College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region list. Hampshire College is a small school located in Amherst, Massachusetts that handed out 0 bachelors’s zoology 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%.

Read full report on Zoology/Animal Biology at Hampshire College

4

University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Vermont landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Burlington, Vermont, this fairly large public school handed out 12 degrees to qualified bachelors’s zoology students in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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 Zoology/Animal Biology at University of Vermont

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.