Aquatic Biology/Limnology degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #926 out of the 1506 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Aquatic Biology/Limnology Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 122 degrees in aquatic biology/limnology annually.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Aquatic Biology/Limnology Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Aquatic Biology/Limnology in the United States
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the aquatic biology/limnology degrees they offer, see the list below.
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.
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