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Zoology at Kentucky Wesleyan College

Zoology at Kentucky Wesleyan College

If you plan to study zoology, take a look at what Kentucky Wesleyan College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Wesleyan is located in Owensboro, Kentucky and approximately 887 students attend the school each year.

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

Wesleyan Zoology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Zoology

Wesleyan Zoology Rankings

The zoology major at Wesleyan 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.

Zoology Student Demographics at Wesleyan

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

Wesleyan Zoology Bachelor’s Program

94% Women
13% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 6% of zoology bachelor's degrees went to men and 94% went to women.

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About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in zoology at Wesleyan are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 2
White 12
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

Concentrations Within Zoology

If you plan to be a zoology major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Kentucky Wesleyan College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Zoology/Animal Biology 13

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 KY, the home state for Kentucky Wesleyan College.

Occupation Jobs in KY Average Salary in KY
Biological Science Professors 680 $70,600
Natural Sciences Managers 300 $110,070
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists 250 $59,190
Biological Scientists 220 $64,780

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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