2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management is the 643rd most popular major in the country with 483 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 65 fishing and fisheries sciences and management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 fishing and fisheries sciences and management graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in fishing and fisheries sciences and management. That schools that top this list have a program in fishing and fisheries sciences and management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree fishing and fisheries sciences and management students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #1 spot on the list. Virginia Tech is a large public school situated in Blacksburg, Virginia. It awarded 6 doctorate’s fishing and fisheries sciences and management degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management at Virginia Tech
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the #2 spot on the list. Gainesville, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s fishing and fisheries sciences and management degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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
- *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.
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