2023 Best Fisheries Sciences Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Fisheries for an Associate” ranking.
Fisheries Sciences is the 290th most popular major in the country with 483 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, fisheries sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $29,766 and had an average of $26,788 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 144 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,370 and $23,283 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 fisheries sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality fisheries sciences programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the fisheries sciences program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Fisheries for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree vets studying fisheries.
Top 1 Best Fisheries Sciences Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hocking College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Fisheries for an Associate. Hocking College is a small school located in Nelsonville, Ohio that handed out 6 associates’s fisheries degrees in 2020-2021.
Hocking Technical College also made our “Best Fisheries Sciences Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1.Among the 2,431 students enrolled at Hocking College, 113 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 67 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,442. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Hocking College does offer credit for military training for eligible 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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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