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 and 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 is 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 schools that might put the price tag of Texas A & M University-College Station into 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 in 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 and 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 and 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.