2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management in the Far Western US Region
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Ranked Colleges
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management is the 643rd most popular major in the country with 506 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 202 fishing & fisheries sciences & management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 fishing & fisheries sciences & management graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree fishing and fisheries sciences and management students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management in the Far Western US Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Far Western US Region list. Oregon State is located in Corvallis, Oregon and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 9 masters’s fishing and fisheries sciences and management degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
Read more about Fishing & Fisheries Sciences & Management at Oregon State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management Major in the Far Western US Region. UW Seattle is a public institution located in Seattle, Washington. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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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