2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$42,451
Avg Salary
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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 Southeast region, there were 65 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,451 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in fisheries sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in fisheries sciences.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree fisheries students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences in the Southeast Region
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 Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region. UF is a public institution located in Gainesville, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 21 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
Full University of Florida Fisheries Sciences Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region list. Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 masters’s fisheries degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
Read more about Fisheries Sciences at Virginia Tech
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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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