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2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

There are about 1,286 students enrolled in Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management in the USA.

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popularity

Not Very Popular

Compared to national avg.

Diplomas received last year

481

Vs. National Avg.

-97%

popularity Rank

#337

cost

Somewhat Affordable

Compared to national avg.

Median degree cost

$23K

Vs. National Avg.

-4%

cost Rank

#280

salary

Below Average

Compared to national avg.

Average Salary Two Years Out of School

$41K

Vs. National Avg.

3%

salary Rank

#222

professors

Above Average

Compared to national avg.

Professor Rating

B-

Vs. National Avg.

15%

professors Rank

#106

students

Not Very Diverse

Compared to national avg.

Diversity Rating

C+

Vs. National Avg.

-3%

students Rank

#319

SUMMARY

A degree in Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management is not only a valuable choice, but naturally a mandatory first step for undergrads seeking to pursue a career as a fish farmer, a commercial fisherman, or an animal facility engineer. Interestingly, fishing and fisheries sciences and management is a very rare degree being the 295th most popular major. Last year alone, there were 405 fishing and fisheries sciences and management graduates. In-state tuition for fishing and fisheries sciences and management at private colleges is, on average, 2.8 times more costly than their public rivals.

With just 18 schools having programs for fishing and fisheries sciences and management you may have a smaller selection of institutions you can choose from. If you're looking to immerse yourself with other fishing and fisheries sciences and management majors, look at institutions in Oregon which have the most undergraduates admitted to fishing and fisheries sciences and management annually. less precisely, the best region to study fishing and fisheries sciences and management is in the Great Lakes region with Lake Superior State University, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and Purdue University-Main Campus best representing the region. Interestingly, our selection for the best conference to study fishing and fisheries sciences and management is the Pacific-12 Conference with Oregon State University representing the conference. Based on our extensive list on the best colleges, our selection for the best college for fishing and fisheries sciences and management is Texas A & M University-College Station.

The 'best' school is not necessarily the best school for every student. There might be lots of facets to think about when choosing school. External stuff like campus amenities, transportation services, and food would definitely sway your thoughts on where to go to school. Here at authority.org, we examined the pros and cons for you. If, for example, you are interested in which fishing and fisheries sciences and management university has the best campus, the answer is Purdue University-Main Campus. If you are very interested in which school boasts the best campus, then we have a whole page dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through student reviews, professor reviews, government databases, and more so we can compare every major in an unbiased and informative way. Here you can explore our well researched list for the colleges with the best student life&nbspand our pick for the university with the best student life for fishing and fisheries sciences and management is Texas A & M University-College Station. Are you curious why? Continue scrolling to learn more about our top choices. Many of our conclusions might surprise you.

If cost is a primary influence in your decisions, you might consider avoiding Texas A & M University-College Station. Texas A & M University-College Station&nbspis our most expensive college for fishing and fisheries sciences and management, at least regarding out of state students. We do have an entire list of the most expensive&nbspschools that might put the price tag of Texas A & M University-College Station&nbspinto perspective. You may also want to know that fishing and fisheries sciences and management is the 282nd most expensive degree in America, with an average associated cost of $25,400. To zoom out a little, the most costly state for fishing and fisheries sciences and management on our list is Texas with costs at the main college, Texas A & M University-College Station, of $34,190. Even more broadly, the most costly region of the country for fishing and fisheries sciences and management is unfortunately unavailable due to missing data.

Our cheapest region for fishing and fisheries sciences and management is the Great Lakes region which is represented by Lake Superior State University with a cost of $12,000, Northern Michigan University with a cost of $16,380, and University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a cost of $15,402. More optimistically, the most affordable school for fishing and fisheries sciences and management is Lake Superior State University. Our full list of the most affordable universities can be found here.

In-state learners can anticipate paying about $10,600 for a degree in fishing and fisheries sciences and management. The cost balloons substantially to an average of $24,700 for an out-of-state public-school undergraduate. On that note, our pick for the college representing the best value for fishing and fisheries sciences and management: Texas A & M University-College Station. On this page you will find our comprehensive list for the colleges we see as being the best value&nbspin general. Do know, this discussion is based on the assumption that you are an out-of-state student. The value proposition changes when it comes to in-state tuition, but we do not know where you live (and are not trying to collect that kind of data).

Earnings for fishing and fisheries sciences and management students differ a lot, but two-years after finishing the degree graduates will often make around $39,100. There can be a lot of variation in earnings; highest paid earners can experience pay up to $73,100. Even straight out of university, the minimum earning positions within the fishing and fisheries sciences and management field make $21,000, which could be worse. The top earning grads from fishing and fisheries sciences and management attended Texas A & M University-College Station&nbspand if you want to find the colleges with all of the highest earning graduates, Authority has that too.

The overall diversity of fishing and fisheries sciences and management is pretty bad, falling within only the 5th percentile of all programs. The school with the highest composite diversity for fishing and fisheries sciences and management is University of Alaska Fairbanks&nbspand here you can find our general list of the colleges which have the most diversity. The overall financial diversity of Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management is only in the 89th percentile of all majors. Racial diversity is even further below average in the 4th percentile. White undergraduates make up the largest proportion, 84%, of students majoring in fishing and fisheries sciences and management. Additionally, 53% of scholars pursuing a fishing and fisheries sciences and management major are men.

The median score for fishing and fisheries sciences and management professors is 4 stars, a ranking that is surprisingly the median score across all majors; this is a fine. If you are interested in the most popular fishing and fisheries sciences and management professor in the nation, take a look at Tara Robinson from Oregon State University. This may be a shock, but the top rated fishing and fisheries sciences and management professors according to students are found at Oregon State University. As we including data beyond basic rankings it becomes clear that the university possessing the overall best professors for fishing and fisheries sciences and management is Purdue University-Main Campus. One can find an explanation of our ever evolving ranking methodology of the best overall professors here, as well as many of the best professors nationwide.

Finally, the hardest school to get into for fishing and fisheries sciences and management is SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill. While we do not necessarily see the value in it, we have a comprehensive list for the hardest colleges to get into. That being said, here at Authority we hope you believe that considering university from examples mainly formed from superlatives might create issues. We hope you read our more focused pages on different schools and explore a couple of our insightful background 'blog posts' on useful things to think about as you continue your school search.

Top 25 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

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A+

Rating

#1 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

University of Georgia

Athens, GA | www.uga.edu/

48%

Acceptance

42,941

Students

#120

Ranking

$31K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#2 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL | www.ufl.edu/

31%

Acceptance

58,857

Students

#76

Ranking

$29K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#3 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus

University Park, PA |

0%

Acceptance

0

Students

#0

Ranking

$0

Tuition

A+

Rating

#4 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Texas A & M University-College Station

College Station, TX | https://www.tamu.edu/

63%

Acceptance

73,308

Students

#123

Ranking

$39K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#5 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Seattle, WA | www.washington.edu/

56%

Acceptance

56,554

Students

#108

Ranking

$39K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#6 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI | www.wisc.edu/

57%

Acceptance

47,831

Students

#101

Ranking

$39K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#7 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

University of Delaware

Newark, DE | www.udel.edu/

66%

Acceptance

26,527

Students

#142

Ranking

$36K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#8 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

University of California-Davis

Davis, CA | ucdavis.edu/

46%

Acceptance

41,236

Students

#96

Ranking

$44K

Tuition

A

Rating

#9 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Arizona State University Campus Immersion

Tempe, AZ | www.asu.edu/

88%

Acceptance

82,880

Students

#332

Ranking

$29K

Tuition

A

Rating

#10 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Michigan Technological University

Houghton, MI | https://www.mtu.edu/

70%

Acceptance

7,786

Students

#259

Ranking

$37K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#11 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Purdue University-Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN | https://www.purdue.edu/

67%

Acceptance

49,027

Students

#129

Ranking

$29K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#12 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Blacksburg, VA | www.vt.edu/

66%

Acceptance

38,350

Students

#130

Ranking

$33K

Tuition

A

Rating

#13 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI | https://www.msu.edu/

76%

Acceptance

55,406

Students

#178

Ranking

$40K

Tuition

A

Rating

#14 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ | https://www.arizona.edu/

85%

Acceptance

49,966

Students

#391

Ranking

$37K

Tuition

A

Rating

#15 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Knoxville, TN | www.utk.edu/

78%

Acceptance

32,056

Students

#322

Ranking

$32K

Tuition

A

Rating

#16 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Auburn University

Auburn, AL | www.auburn.edu/

85%

Acceptance

32,840

Students

#276

Ranking

$32K

Tuition

A−

Rating

#17 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Oregon State University

Corvallis, OR | https://oregonstate.edu/

82%

Acceptance

37,586

Students

#432

Ranking

$31K

Tuition

B

Rating

#18 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, MS | https://www.msstate.edu/

80%

Acceptance

24,449

Students

#772

Ranking

$24K

Tuition

A−

Rating

#19 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Washington State University

Pullman, WA | wsu.edu/

80%

Acceptance

35,394

Students

#513

Ranking

$27K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#20 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

College of the Ozarks

Point Lookout, MO | www.cofo.edu/

14%

Acceptance

1,750

Students

#162

Ranking

$20K

Tuition

A−

Rating

#21 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Colorado State University-Fort Collins

Fort Collins, CO | colostate.edu/

84%

Acceptance

37,806

Students

#426

Ranking

$31K

Tuition

B

Rating

#22 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV | www.wvu.edu/

84%

Acceptance

30,045

Students

#895

Ranking

$25K

Tuition

B

Rating

#23 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

University of Idaho

Moscow, ID | www.uidaho.edu/

74%

Acceptance

13,852

Students

#945

Ranking

$28K

Tuition

A

Rating

#24 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

University of New Hampshire-Main Campus

Durham, NH | www.unh.edu/

85%

Acceptance

16,001

Students

#379

Ranking

$36K

Tuition

D

Rating

#25 2024 Best Colleges for Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

Bellingham Technical College

Bellingham, WA | https://www.btc.edu/

0%

Acceptance

3,206

Students

#1874

Ranking

$5K

Tuition

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