2024 Best Fisheries Sciences Schools in the Southeast Region
2Colleges in the Southeast Region
65Fisheries Degrees Awarded
$42,451Avg Early-Career Salary
Fisheries Sciences degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #290 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for fisheries sciences students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 65 degrees in fisheries sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Best Schools for Fisheries Sciences in the Southeast Region
The schools below may not offer all types of fisheries degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Florida is a good choice for students interested in a degree in fisheries sciences. UF is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Gainesville.
Those fisheries sciences students who get their degree from University of Florida receive $3,889 more than the average fisheries grad.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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