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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 “Most Well Attended Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in aquatic biology/limnology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular aquatic biology/limnology programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major for a Master’s”.

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

1

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas State is a large public school situated in San Marcos, Texas. It awarded 6 masters’s aquatic biology/limnology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Texas State University Aquatic Biology/Limnology Report

2

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Aquatic Biology/Limnology Major for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #2 spot on the list. URI is a fairly large public school situated in Kingston, Rhode Island. It awarded 0 masters’s aquatic biology/limnology degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Aquatic Biology/Limnology at URI

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.