2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Water, Wetlands, & Marine Resources Management in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Water, Wetlands, and Marine Resources Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Water, Wetlands, & Marine Resources Management is the 784th most popular major in the country with 345 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southeast region, there were 170 water, wetlands, & marine resources management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 52 water, wetlands, & marine resources management graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Water, Wetlands, and Marine Resources Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in water, wetlands, & marine resources management. That schools that top this list have a program in water, wetlands, & marine resources management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Water, Wetlands, and Marine Resources Management Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree water, wetlands, and marine resources management students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Water, Wetlands, & Marine Resources Management in the Southeast Region

1

Florida Gulf Coast University
Fort Myers, Florida

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida Gulf Coast University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Water, Wetlands, and Marine Resources Management Major in the Southeast Region. FGCU is a fairly large school located in Fort Myers, Florida that handed out 29 bachelors’s water, wetlands, and marine resources management degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full FGCU Water, Wetlands, & Marine Resources Management Report

2

Florida Gateway College
Lake City, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Gateway College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Water, Wetlands, and Marine Resources Management Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Lake City, Florida, this small public school handed out 19 degrees to qualified bachelors’s water, wetlands, and marine resources management students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Florida Gateway College Water, Wetlands, & Marine Resources Management Report

3

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, Florida

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Institute of Technology. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Water, Wetlands, and Marine Resources Management Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Melbourne, Florida, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s water, wetlands, and marine resources management students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%.

Read more about Water, Wetlands, & Marine Resources Management at Florida Tech

4

Everglades University
Boca Raton, Florida

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Water, Wetlands, and Marine Resources Management Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Everglades University landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in Boca Raton, Florida, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s water, wetlands, and marine resources management degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Water, Wetlands, & Marine Resources Management at Everglades 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Brian M. Powell.