2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 175 zoology/animal biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 zoology/animal biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in zoology/animal biology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their zoology/animal biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Zoology/Animal Biology in the Southeast Region

1

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

#14 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 11 masters’s zoology degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Zoology/Animal Biology at North Carolina State University

2

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Zoology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the #2 spot on the list. UF is a public institution located in Gainesville, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Zoology/Animal Biology at UF

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.