2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 72 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,451 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in fisheries sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in fisheries sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region list. Virginia Tech is a large school located in Blacksburg, Virginia that handed out 3 doctorate’s fisheries degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Fisheries Sciences at Virginia Tech
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the #2 spot on the list. Gainesville, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s fisheries degrees to 4 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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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