2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Far Western US Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 483 people earned their degree in fisheries sciences, making the major the 290th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, fisheries sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $29,766 and had an average of $26,788 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 192 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,283 and $32,761 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fisheries sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in fisheries sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree fisheries students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences in the Far Western US Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Corvallis, Oregon, this large public school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified masters’s fisheries students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Fisheries Sciences at Oregon State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Far Western US Region list. UW Seattle is a large school located in Seattle, Washington that handed out 0 masters’s fisheries degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Fisheries Sciences at University of Washington - Seattle Campus
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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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