If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in animal science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #64 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Animal Science Bachelor's Degree Schools in Idaho ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 106 bachelor's degrees in animal science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other animal science students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
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 animal science 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 animal science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for animal science students working on their bachelor's degree.
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 Science Bachelor's Degree Schools in Idaho.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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University of Idaho is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in animal science. Located in the distant town of Moscow, U of I is a public university with a large student population.
Those animal science students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Idaho receive $5,413 more than the typical animal science student.
Brigham Young University - Idaho is a good decision for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in animal science. BYU - I is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the town of Rexburg.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the animal science program make an average of $25,661 in their early career salary.
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).
