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. In 2021, 13 zoology majors received their bachelor's degree from Wesleyan.

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 following rankings from College Factual show how the zoology progam at Wesleyan compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Zoology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	4
Most Focused Zoology Schools	5
Most Popular Zoology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	44
Most Popular Zoology Schools	52

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

The zoology program at Wesleyan awarded 13 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 23% of these degrees went to men with the other 77% going to women.

About 92% 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.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• 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 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.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.