2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Aquaculture Major in the Southeast Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Aquaculture Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Aquaculture is the 980th most popular major in the country with 139 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 106 aquaculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 aquaculture graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Aquaculture Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in aquaculture. That schools that top this list have a program in aquaculture in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Aquaculture Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree aquaculture students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Aquaculture in the Southeast Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Aquaculture Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is a public institution located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Aquaculture Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Aquaculture Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kentucky State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Kentucky State University is a small public school situated in Frankfort, Kentucky. It awarded 6 masters’s aquaculture degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full KY State Aquaculture Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Auburn University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Aquaculture Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Auburn, Alabama, this large public school handed out 15 degrees to qualified masters’s aquaculture students in 2021-2022.
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 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Aquaculture at Auburn University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Aquaculture Major in the Southeast Region. Clemson University is located in Clemson, South Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 33 masters’s aquaculture degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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 Clemson Aquaculture 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%.
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- *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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