2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Aquatic Biology/Limnology

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In 2020-2021, 120 people earned their degree in aquatic biology/limnology, making the major the 926th most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 aquatic biology/limnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in aquatic biology/limnology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in aquatic biology/limnology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree aquatic biology/limnology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Aquatic Biology/Limnology

1

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major list. Texas State is a public institution located in San Marcos, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Aquatic Biology/Limnology at Texas State

2

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major list. University of Rhode Island is a fairly large school located in Kingston, Rhode Island that handed out 0 masters’s aquatic biology/limnology degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Rhode Island Aquatic Biology/Limnology Report

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.