Where can your student actually get into animal science?

• 5 colleges in California offer a bachelor's animal science program; every one of them awarded the degree in 2022-23 (federal IPEDS completions).
• Largest programs by graduates in 2022-23: University of California-Davis (304), California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo (159), California State Polytechnic University-Pomona (149).
• Hardest reported gate into the program (only the UC and the CSU publish one): University of California-Davis — Animal Sciences, Fall 2025: 2,330 applied, 698 admitted (30%).
• Highest reported admit rate into the program: California State University-Fresno — 95.3% (1,152 applied, 1,098 admitted, Fall 2025).
• Highest median earnings four years after the degree: California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, $54,805.
• Lowest average net price with aid: California State University-Fresno, $7,000 per year.

Every program here reports a first-year row, so a student applies straight into animal science as a freshman rather than entering as a pre-major and competing for a seat later. UC Davis shows the hardest reported gate on this page at 30%, though a UC admits a student to the campus rather than to the major; among the CSU programs, which do report admits by major, Cal Poly Pomona is the narrowest at 26.9% for Animal Science and 31.1% for Pre-Veterinary Science, and Cal Poly SLO admitted 33.6% to Animal Science. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · All 108 colleges nationwide →

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Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings, then by graduates. Degree awarded is the program the college conferred bachelor's degrees in during 2022-23, with the number of graduates (federal IPEDS completions). Program admit rate is the college system's own number for this major (UC Information Center, CSU Chancellor's Office). Net price is the average paid by aid recipients; full price is the cost of attendance. Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians four years after the degree.

Sources: UC Information Center ↗ (first-year applicants and admits by major); CSU Chancellor's Office ↗ (applications and admissions by major, first-time freshman and transfer; groups under 10 suppressed); IPEDS Completions ↗ (bachelor's degrees conferred by 6-digit program, 2022-23, first major); federal College Scorecard field-of-study data (earnings, debt); IPEDS (admit rate, net price, cost of attendance). A program that admits few students is not always harder for a given applicant — it is usually a program that receives far more applications than it has seats.

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