2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management is the 643rd most popular major in the country with 506 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 72 fishing & fisheries sciences & management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 fishing & fisheries sciences & management graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in fishing & fisheries sciences & management. That schools that top this list have a program in fishing & fisheries sciences & management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree fishing and fisheries sciences and management students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region. Virginia Tech is a public institution located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management at Virginia Tech
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Florida. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Gainesville, Florida, this large public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified doctorate’s fishing and fisheries sciences and management students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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 Florida Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management 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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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