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2023 Best Value Animal Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$20,433 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Animal Science Graduate Certificate School for You

Animal Science is the #164 most popular major in the country with 596 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Animal Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Plains States Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for animal science students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Animal Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Animal Science Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Plains States Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Animal Science

Our analysis found South Dakota State University to be the best value school for animal science students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Plains States Region . South Dakota State is a large public school located in the town of Brookings.

South Dakota State graduate students pay an average of $16,917 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Animal Science at South Dakota State University Report

#2

Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kansas State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Animal Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. K -State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Manhattan.

K -State graduate students pay an average of $23,949 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Animal Science at Kansas State University Report

Best Animal Science Colleges by State

Explore the best animal science schools for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 12
Minnesota 8
Iowa 15
Kansas 26
Nebraska 23
North Dakota 5
South Dakota 26

One of 14 majors within the area of study, animal science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Plant Sciences 912
Food Science Technology 692
Agricultural Economics & Business 410
General Agriculture 353
Agricultural Public Services 179

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Billy Hathorn.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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