2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Zoology

ZOOLOGY DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

College students majoring in zoology are quite unique. A typical major gives out 6,156 annual undergrad degrees; 2,425 people last spring earned a college degree in zoology, making it the 132nd most popular concentration countrywide. The University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus​ granted 193 of those degrees (#1 in the nation), and colleges in Ohio accounted for more degrees than any US State (403).

It can often not be easy to pick out the best institution, since 94 colleges nationally have an undergraduate degree in zoology. Undergraduate degrees in zoology are 51% less universally offered than the typical major, making it the 176th most universally offered degree in the United States.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While 83% of last spring's degrees in zoology were four-year degrees; 17% were grad degrees. Zoology is the 176th most popular grad degree in the United States, with 509 degrees conferred. For some context, the average subject is 5.5 times more popular among master's or doctor's students than zoology.

In Total, 2,934 students received a bachelor's or higher in zoology last May.

ONLINE ZOOLOGY DEGREES

18 of those 2,934 graduates (0.6%) did their studies exclusively online - 0 college students and 18 postgrad students. It is presently the 219th most popular online master's or doctor's degree, and 97.1% below the American average (616).

PARTIALLY ONLINE ZOOLOGY DEGREES

• 568 students last year were awarded a college degree in zoology partially online
• Zoology is the 157th most universally offered partially online bachelor's degree across the country
• Last May, 619 people completed a bachelor's or higher in zoology partially online
• Ohio University-Main Campus​ conferred the most partially online undergraduate degrees in zoology in the US (57)
• 10.02% of all postgraduate degrees in zoology are done partially online

IN-PERSON ZOOLOGY DEGREES

• Zoology is the 129th most pursued entirely in-person college degree in the United States
• Zoology is the 211th most broadly available fully in-person undergrad degree in the United States of America
• Last year, 2,296 students earned a bachelor's or higher in zoology in-person
• Lees-McRae College's​ last undergraduate class had the most dense population of comprehensively in-person zoology majors in America (13.97%)
• 439 students completed in-person postgrad degrees in zoology last spring
• 86.25% of all graduate degrees in zoology are done entirely in-person