2023 Most Popular 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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fishing and fisheries sciences and management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular fishing and fisheries sciences and management programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 be in good company if you decide to attend University of Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. Located in Gainesville, Florida, this large public school handed out 21 diplomas to qualified masters’s fishing and fisheries sciences and management students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management at UF

2

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#7 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. 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.

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%.

Full Virginia Tech Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management Report

• Most Popular 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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