2025 Best Animal Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
2Colleges in the Southeast Region
68Doctor's Degrees
Animal Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #92 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for animal science students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 68 doctor'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 doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 doctor'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 doctor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized animal science related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for animal science students working on their doctor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Animal Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Virginia Tech is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in animal science. Located in the small city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public school with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in animal science from Virginia Tech
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
