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Animal Care Schools
in MO
Northwest Missouri State University
Southeast Missouri State University
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Animal Care Schools in Missouri
Missouri contains eleven schools that offer animal care programs. University of Missouri-Columbia, the highest-ranking animal care school in MO, has a total student population of 31,237 and is the 820th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 11 animal care schools in Missouri, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Sanford-Brown College comes out as the most expensive ($22,787/yr), with Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods as the lowest recorded at only $2,865/yr.
Animal Care students from Missouri schools who go on to become animal care supervisors, veterinarians, animal trainers, animal behavioralists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 15,320 people working as animal control workers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $33,560. Also, Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers make on average $23,400 per year and there are about 71,350 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Missouri alone, there are 2,080 employed veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers earning an average yearly salary of $20,130. Animal control workers in this state earn $28,330/yr and there are 270 employed.
Also, within the animal care schools in Missouri, the average student population is 2,183 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from animal care, there are 4755 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,482 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,695, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
Missouri Interesting Facts
- Missouri is known as the "Show Me State".
- The 'Show Me State' expression may have began in 1899 when Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver stated, "I'm from Missouri and you've got to show me."
- The first successful parachute jump to be made from a moving airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, in 1912.
- The most destructive tornado on record occurred in Annapolis. In 3 hours, it tore through the town on March 18, 1925 leaving a 980-foot wide trail of demolished buildings, uprooted trees, and overturned cars. It left 823 people dead and almost 3,000 injured.
- At the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, Richard Blechyden, served tea with ice and invented iced tea.
Cities in Missouri
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