2022 Best Value Fisheries Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Fisheries Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Fisheries Sciences is the 267th most popular major in the country with 481 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, fisheries sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $26,120 and had an average of $22,499 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 2 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,600 and $19,449 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,701 and $106,703 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent fisheries sciences programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the fisheries sciences program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Fisheries Sciences Schools

The fisheries school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Fisheries Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k”.

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. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Fisheries Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Fisheries Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences (Income $75-$110k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$25,948 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Fisheries Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. This large school is located in Ames, Iowa, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s fisheries degrees in 2019-2020.

Iowa State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Fisheries Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Iowa State University are $25,948, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Fisheries Sciences at Iowa State

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences (Income $75-$110k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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