2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Fisheries Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that 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 Southeast region, there were 77 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Fisheries Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in fisheries sciences. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality fisheries sciences programs that also have a lower cost than 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Fisheries Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree fisheries students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$30,130 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$41,565 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Fisheries Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. Gainesville, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s fisheries degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UF, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Fisheries Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UF are $30,130, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Fisheries Sciences at UF

#2

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

$30,547 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Fisheries Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Virginia Tech is a public institution located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Virginia Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Fisheries Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Virginia Tech are $30,547, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Virginia Tech Fisheries Sciences Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences (With Aid)

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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