2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$42,451
Avg Salary
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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 Southeast region, there were 72 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,451 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fisheries Sciences in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region list. University of Florida is located in Gainesville, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 26 masters’s fisheries degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fisheries Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, this large public school awarded 8 degrees to qualified masters’s fisheries students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national 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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