Animal Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #64 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Minnesota to determine which ones were the best for animal science students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 102 bachelor's degrees in animal science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to animal science students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of animal science students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for animal science to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
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 schools 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 Minnesota.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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It's difficult to beat University of Minnesota - Twin Cities if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in animal science. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a fairly large student population.
After graduation, animal science bachelor's recipients generally make around $34,073 at the beginning of their careers.
University of Minnesota - Crookston is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in animal science. UMN Crookston is a small public university located in the town of Crookston.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the animal science program state that they receive average early career wages of $35,072.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
