2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Fisheries Sciences is the 290th most popular major in the country with 506 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , fisheries sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $29,766 and had an average of $23,584 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 21 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in fisheries sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their fisheries sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree fisheries students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science
Paul Smiths, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Paul Smiths, New York. It awarded 6 bachelors’s fisheries degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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 Paul Smith’s College Fisheries Sciences Report

2

SUNY Cobleskill
Cobleskill, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Cobleskill. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. SUNY Cobleskill is a small public school situated in Cobleskill, New York. It awarded 7 bachelors’s fisheries degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full SUNY Cobleskill Fisheries Sciences Report

3

Juniata College
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Juniata College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s fisheries students in 2021-2022.

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 Juniata Fisheries Sciences Report

4

Delaware State University
Dover, Delaware

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Delaware State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Dover, Delaware, this medium-sized public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s fisheries students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Fisheries Sciences at Delaware State University

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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