2023 Most Popular Colleges for Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$30,600
Avg Cost*
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 483 people earned their degree in fishing and fisheries sciences and management, making the major the 643rd most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 65 fishing and fisheries sciences and management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fishing and fisheries sciences and management. To top this list, a school must have a successful fishing and fisheries sciences and management program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region fishing and fisheries sciences and management students.
Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. Gainesville, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s fishing and fisheries sciences and management degrees to 49 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management at University of Florida
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region. Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 ’s fishing and fisheries sciences and management degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Virginia Tech Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management Report
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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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