Bachelor's · earnings grade

Is a Animal Sciences degree worth it?

Graduates earn a median $30,616 two years after finishing, more than 16% of bachelor's majors. Measured across 105 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.

The verdict on the money

Financially it is a slower start than most majors at this level — worth planning your borrowing around.

Median earnings $30,616 2 years after finishing · per graduate

Typical range $25,967–$32,925 middle half of US programmes

Over no degree — vs $39,520 high-school median

Graduates a year 7,296 105 programmes

Where a Animal Sciences degree pays best US programmes ranked on their own graduates' median earnings two years out.

#	University	1 yr out	2 yrs out	3 yrs out	Graduates/yr
1	Northwest Missouri State University cost & debt at this university →	$35,068	$41,937	$45,519	17
2	South Dakota State University cost & debt at this university →	$40,797	$41,441	$44,077	101
3	Colorado State University-Fort Collins	$35,832	$39,585	$42,418	91
4	Dordt University	not published	$39,369	not published	5
5	Iowa State University cost & debt at this university →	$35,828	$38,289	$41,609	235
6	North Dakota State University-Main Campus cost & debt at this university →	$33,090	$37,856	$41,655	45
7	University of Wisconsin-Madison cost & debt at this university →	$35,454	$36,488	$46,889	35
8	University of Nebraska-Lincoln cost & debt at this university →	$32,644	$35,594	$37,620	81
9	Michigan State University cost & debt at this university →	$34,232	$35,546	$39,480	140
10	West Texas A & M University	$24,972	$35,420	$38,834	—
11	University of Wisconsin-Platteville cost & debt at this university →	$38,120	$35,416	$39,348	37
12	Texas A&M University-College Station cost & debt at this university →	$32,078	$35,060	$42,377	339

What this figure does and does not tell you

Two medians are worth separating. $30,616 is what the typical graduate earns — each programme counted in proportion to how many students it graduates. $29,374 is what the typical programme reports, counting a class of twenty the same as a class of two thousand. The weighted figure is higher here, which means the larger programmes in this field are the better-paying ones.

It is the median of what real graduates of this exact major earned, taken from tax records two years after they completed. It is not a starting salary, not an average of job adverts, and not a projection. The median bachelor's major in this dataset reports $36,497, so Animal Sciences sits below the middle by $5,881.

Two years is early in a career. Fields with long training pipelines — medicine, law, research — look weaker at this point than they will at ten, while trades and applied technical fields peak sooner. Read a low figure in a long-pipeline subject as "slow start", not "bad degree".

There is no debt figure here on purpose. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not borrowing, so nobody can honestly tell you the debt of a specific major. Debt is published per institution — that is where our university cost pages carry it.

Scholarships for Animal Sciences students

Whatever the subject pays, the money you do not borrow is the money you keep.

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Majors that pay more at this level Closest first — useful if you are still choosing.

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How much do Animal Sciences graduates earn?

The median bachelor's graduate earns $30,616 two years after finishing (weighting each programme by how many students it graduates), across 83 US programmes that publish the figure. One year out it is $28,976.