If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in aquaculture, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #788 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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Aquaculture Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 73 bachelor's degrees in aquaculture during the <nil> academic year.
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on aquaculture students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other aquaculture students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor'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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized aquaculture related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for aquaculture students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Aquaculture Bachelor's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Aquaculture in the United States
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in aquaculture.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).