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Animal Behavior Schools near Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach, VA (population: 439,564) has forty-one animal behavior schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. Duke University, the highest ranked school in this group with an animal behavior program, has a total student population of 14,350. It is the 15th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of North Carolina.

Animal Behavior students from Virginia Beach schools who go on to become animal behavioralists, animal trainers, dog trainers, animal scientists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 10,080 people working as animal trainers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $31,080. Also, Zoologists and wildlife biologists make on average $60,670 per year and there are about 17,460 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News-NC area alone, there are 90 employed zoologists and wildlife biologists earning an average salary of $50,300. Animal trainers in this area earn $44,730/yr and there are ** employed.

Virginia Beach lies in Virginia Beach county, which is one of the 61 counties in Virginia. Overall, the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News-NC area has 735,390 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $19.28/hr average worker wage, and a $40,100 average annual salary. Thus, about ** out of every 1000 jobs in Virginia Beach are held by animal trainers, and 0.129/1000 are held by zoologists and wildlife biologists.

Of the 41 animal behavior schools with a 500-mile radius of Virginia Beach, only 22 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Hampshire College comes out as the most expensive ($28,794/yr) for animal behavior students, with Ulster County Community College as the lowest, reported at only $5,664/yr.

Animal Behavior Programs near Virginia Beach

Hampshire College

Animal Behavior and Ethology

Levels offered: Bachelors

Bucknell University

Animal Behavior and Ethology

Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

Franklin and Marshall College

Animal Behavior and Ethology

Levels offered: Bachelors

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Name	State	Population	# of Schools	Avg School Rank	Total Programs	Distance from Virginia Beach
Chesapeake	VA	223,315	5	26.9533	56	15.5 miles
Norfolk	VA	234,477	11	21.2525	420	16.7 miles
Portsmouth	VA	102,540	2	19.0088	64	19.6 miles
Hampton	VA	147,560	2	15.4443	49	25.5 miles
Suffolk	VA	84,501	2	10.9214	2	33.4 miles
Newport News	VA	182,057	4	29.3064	58	35.1 miles
Petersburg	VA	-	3	33.8633	70	82.5 miles
Weldon	NC	-	1	13.6824	51	89.1 miles
Highland Springs	VA	-	1	3.25189	0	90.3 miles
Richmond	VA	198,179	22	25.9212	685	95.9 miles