2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Aquaculture (Income $75-$110k)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Aquaculture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking.

Aquaculture is the 905th most popular major in the country with 157 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 54 aquaculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Aquaculture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in aquaculture. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality aquaculture programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the aquaculture program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Aquaculture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Aquaculture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree aquaculture students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Aquaculture (Income $75-$110k)

#1

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$26,518 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Auburn University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Aquaculture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k. This large school is located in Auburn, Alabama, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s aquaculture degrees in 2019-2020.

Auburn did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Aquaculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $26,518 for Bachelor’s Degree Aquaculture students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Auburn University.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Read more about Aquaculture at Auburn

#2

Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$22,937 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Aquaculture Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k. Located in Clemson, South Carolina, this large public school handed out 38 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s aquaculture students in 2019-2020.

Clemson also took the #2 spot in our “Best Aquaculture Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Clemson University is $22,937 for bachelor’s degree aquaculture students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Clemson Aquaculture Report

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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