2025 Best Animal Sciences, General Associate Degree Schools
6Colleges in the United States
181Associate Degrees
Animal Sciences, General is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #282 most popular associate degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Animal Sciences, General Associate Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 181 associate degrees in animal sciences, general during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Animal Sciences, General School for Your Associate Degree
The animal science associate 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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 animal sciences, general students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of animal sciences, general students who choose to seek a associate 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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized animal sciences, general related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for animal sciences, general students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Animal Sciences, General Schools
The animal science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Animal Sciences, General Associate Degree Schools.
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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).