You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Bachelor's Degree in animal services. It is ranked #235 out of 363 major degree programs in terms of popularity. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Animal Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 72 bachelor's degrees in animal services to qualified students.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor'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 much a school focuses on animal services students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other animal services students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
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 much debt animal services 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 services related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for animal services students working on their bachelor's degree.
The animal services 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 Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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It's hard to beat Midway University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in animal services. Midway is a small private not-for-profit university located in the rural area of Midway.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the animal services program make around $33,696 for their early career.
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
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