2024 Best Fisheries Sciences Master's Degree Schools
If you're seeking a Master's Degree in
fisheries sciences, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #274 one in the country in terms of popularity.This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual looked at 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Fisheries Sciences Master's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 41 master's degrees in fisheries sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Fisheries Sciences School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of fisheries sciences for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on fisheries sciences students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other fisheries sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How much debt fisheries sciences students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized fisheries sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for fisheries sciences students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Fisheries Sciences Master's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.