2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 506 people earned their degree in fishing & fisheries sciences & management, making the major the 643rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 12 fishing & fisheries sciences & management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 fishing & fisheries sciences & management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,140 and $21,982 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in fishing & fisheries sciences & management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their fishing & fisheries sciences & management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management in the Rocky Mountains Region

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University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#21 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Idaho. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Located in Moscow, Idaho, this fairly large public school handed out 12 degrees to qualified bachelors’s fishing and fisheries sciences and management students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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 Idaho Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management Report

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Utah State University
Logan, Utah

#13 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Utah State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. USU is located in Logan, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s fishing and fisheries sciences and management degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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 USU Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management Report

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Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Fort Collins, Colorado

#6 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. This large school is located in Fort Collins, Colorado, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s fishing and fisheries sciences and management degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management at Colorado State

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

• *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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