2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Aquatic Biology/Limnology in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Aquatic Biology/Limnology is the 926th most popular major in the country with 120 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 17 aquatic biology/limnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 aquatic biology/limnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in aquatic biology/limnology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in aquatic biology/limnology.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Aquatic Biology/Limnology in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Syracuse, New York

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This small school is located in Syracuse, New York, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s aquatic biology/limnology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on Aquatic Biology/Limnology at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

2

Gannon University
Erie, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Gannon University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Erie, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s aquatic biology/limnology students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read more about Aquatic Biology/Limnology at Gannon

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Aquatic Biology/Limnology

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ernst Haeckel.