2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management in the Southeast Region

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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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 fishing and fisheries sciences and management graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in fishing and fisheries sciences and management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their fishing and fisheries sciences and management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management in the Southeast Region

1

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Florida. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region. University of Florida is a large school located in Gainesville, Florida that handed out 21 masters’s fishing and fisheries sciences and management degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Read more about Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management at University of Florida

2

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#7 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region. Virginia Tech is a large school located in Blacksburg, Virginia that handed out 6 masters’s fishing and fisheries sciences and management degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management

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.

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