Showing the Top 50 of 94 Total
Animal Care Schools
within 500 miles of Virginia Beach, VA
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Howard University
North Carolina A & T State University
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Hiwassee College
West Virginia University
Great Lakes Institute of Technology
Lancaster County Career and Technology Center
Lincoln Memorial University
SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill
Davidson County Community College
Sanford-Brown Institute
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Animal Care Schools near Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach, VA (population: 439,564) has ninety-four animal care schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. Duke University, the highest ranked school in this group with an animal care 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 Care students from Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News-NC area alone, there are 520 employed veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers earning an average salary of $19,660. Animal control workers in this area earn $34,760/yr and there are 90 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 0.121 out of every 1000 jobs in Virginia Beach are held by animal control workers, and 0.711/1000 are held by veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers.
Of the 94 animal care 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, Sanford-Brown Institute comes out as the most expensive ($29,176/yr) for animal care students, with Hiwassee College as the lowest, reported at only $5,858/yr.
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Cities Near Virginia Beach
| 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 |