2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Far Western US Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 Fisheries Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 506 people earned their degree in fisheries sciences, making the major the 290th most popular in the United States. 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 Far Western US region, there were 202 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,283 and $26,639 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in fisheries sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in fisheries sciences.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree fisheries students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences 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 Fisheries Major in the Far Western US Region list. Oregon State is a large public school situated in Corvallis, Oregon. It awarded 9 masters’s fisheries degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Fisheries Sciences 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 Fisheries Major in the Far Western US Region. University of Washington - Seattle Campus is located in Seattle, Washington and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 masters’s fisheries degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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