<p>Does anyone have any suggestions for schools that have majors or minor in zoology??</p>
<p>UC Davis is famous for animal studies.</p>
<p>SUNY</a> Oswego - Majors and Minors: Zoology</p>
<p>SUNY</a> Oswego - Undergraduate Degree Requirements: Biology Department</p>
<p>Michigan State, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Wisconsin and NC State.</p>
<p>Zoology is one of the major branches in the field of Biology/Biological Sciences, even though many colleges have eliminated the title "zoology" as a major. Therefore, while every college offers a biology/biological sciences major, only a few still offer a distinct major called Zoology. Add U of New Hampshire to the list of schools that offer a Zoology degree. Michigan State University's Lyman Briggs School of Biology is excellent. You understand that Zoology is the area of biology that covers animal organisms?</p>
<p>^^I would add that zoology is the branch of biology that covers wild animals. The biology of domestic animals is usually studied in Animal Science departments.</p>
<p>Gourman Report ranking for undergrad zoology</p>
<p>U Wisconsin Madison
U Washington
U Texas Austin
Cornell
U Georgia
UC Davis
Michigan State
U Florida
Ohio State
Washington State
Arizona State
Iowa State
Oregon State
Colorado State
North Carolina State
Louisiana State
SUNY Coll Environmental Sci and Forestry
Texas A&M
U Maryland College Park</p>
<p>Is this list accurate? Do each of these universities today offer a major called "Zoology?" Also, the poster should determine if she/he has a preference between Vertebrate Zoology and Invertebrate Zoology. Unfortunately, some school offer just a "General Zoology" course. And Scipio's point about Animal Science is well taken.</p>
<p>Bachelors graduates in "zoology/animal biology" under biological sciences last year. There is also "animal sciences" under agriculture, not included here.</p>
<p>Miami University-Oxford 206
Michigan State University 172
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus 170
University of Wisconsin-Madison 105
Ohio State University-Main Campus 84
North Carolina State University at Raleigh 70
Washington State University 63
North Dakota State University-Main Campus 60
University of Florida 55
Ohio University-Main Campus 55
University of Rhode Island 49
Southern Illinois University Carbondale 46
Colorado State University 38
Auburn University Main Campus 36
Idaho State University 31
Oklahoma State University-Main Campus 31
Weber State University 29
SUNY College at Oswego 29
University of New Hampshire-Main Campus 29
University of California-Santa Barbara 27
University of Wyoming 26
University of California-Davis 24
University of Hawaii at Manoa 24
Humboldt State University 22
Texas A & M University 21
Oregon State University 19
Ohio Wesleyan University 17
Texas Tech University 17
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona 17
Kent State University-Kent Campus 16
Northern Arizona University 13
Tarleton State University 12
Iowa State University 11
Delaware Valley College 10
University of Maine 9
Northern Michigan University 7
Texas State University-San Marcos 6
University of Akron Main Campus 5
Texas Woman's University 5
University of Vermont 4
Olivet Nazarene University 3
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 3</p>
<p>Zoology is quite good and popular at Wisconsin. The department is large enough to have its own building and museum.</p>
<p>Ohio Wesleyan is great! I almost went there JUST for the zoology program, but then I decided their philosophy dept wasn't strong enough for my needs.</p>
<p>Wow! Thanks for all the info. I'm not sure exactly what my son is looking for or if he realizes that there are options. This will give him more to think about.</p>
<p>My daughter plans on attending Miami University at Oxford for Zoology with the ultimate intention of becoming a physician's assistant or a zoo keeper.</p>
<p>Wisconsin's Animal Science dept is in the Ag School and about a mile away from Zoology which covers all forms of animal life while ag animal science focuses on crop animals. It also is excellent but far different in focus.</p>
<p>I was in the process of researching the lsit of colleges that were listed. I was wondering what the numbers meant in collegehelps's posting?</p>
<p>^^^The numbers are the amount of college graduates (with Bachelors degrees) from each of the respective colleges.</p>
<p>"UC Davis is famous for animal studies."--JteH</p>
<p>Huh, I always thought that UC Davis was famous for its agricultural department, hence the mascot -the AGGIES. </p>
<p>A specific B.S. or B.A. in zoology is not required to work in this field. If you look at these specific programs you will see that they are basically just biology tracts with one or two biology electives that are directly related to zoology thrown into the core curriculum. Some are even just biology programs with a required summer internship that fulfills the requirement of zoology major. </p>
<p>Another thing to keep in mind is that most working zoologists got their undergrad degree in general biology, ecology, math, or some other environmental science and then studied zoology or more accurately -a specific topic of zoology- in grad school.</p>
<p>Baracuta, that's probably because few colleges today offer a "zoology" degree. The Biology/Biological Sciences major is the umbrella that covers zoology, ecology, environmental science (and sometimes, earth science) at most colleges today.</p>
<p>Thanks for the additional info. It appears that most of the schools on the list are large universities. I am afraid that my quiet son will get lost in a large school.</p>
<p>Nah, it will make a man out of him.</p>