Zoology at Hastings College

If you are interested in studying zoology, you may want to check out the program at Hastings College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Hastings is located in Hastings, Nebraska and has a total student population of 982. Of the 283 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Hastings College in 2021, 3 of them were zoology majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Zoology section at the bottom of this page.

Hastings Zoology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Zoology

Hastings Zoology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks zoology programs across the country. The following shows how Hastings performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The zoology major at Hastings is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Zoology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Zoology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	31
Most Popular Zoology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	68

Zoology Student Demographics at Hastings

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the zoology majors at Hastings College.

Hastings Zoology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of zoology bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. The typical zoology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% men. So male students are more repesented at Hastings since its program graduates 37% more men than average.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in zoology at Hastings are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% more racial-ethnic minorities in its zoology bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Hastings College with a bachelor's in zoology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Hastings also has a doctoral program available in zoology. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology
• General Biology

Careers That Zoology Grads May Go Into

A degree in zoology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NE, the home state for Hastings College.

Occupation	Jobs in NE	Average Salary in NE
Biological Science Professors	430	$87,040
Natural Sciences Managers	270	$89,620
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	170	$60,060
Biological Scientists	150	$74,790

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Ammodramus under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.