Fisheries Sciences at Purdue University - Main Campus

If you plan to study fisheries sciences, take a look at what Purdue University - Main Campus has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and approximately 46,655 students attend the school each year. Of the 8,338 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University - Main Campus in 2021, 40 of them were fisheries sciences majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Fisheries Sciences section at the bottom of this page.

Purdue Fisheries Sciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Fisheries

Purdue Fisheries Sciences Rankings

The fisheries major at Purdue is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Fisheries Sciences. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Earnings of Purdue Fisheries Graduates

The median salary of fisheries students who receive their bachelor's degree at Purdue is $21,754. This is less than $27,857, which is the national average of all fisheries majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Fisheries Student Demographics at Purdue

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the fisheries majors at Purdue University - Main Campus.

Purdue Fisheries Sciences Bachelor’s Program

Of the 40 fisheries students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Purdue, about 25% were men and 75% were women. The typical fisheries bachelor's degree program is made up of only 44% women. So female students are more repesented at Purdue since its program graduates 31% more women than average.

About 85% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in fisheries at Purdue are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Purdue University - Main Campus with a bachelor's in fisheries.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	34
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Purdue also has a doctoral program available in fisheries. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Natural Resources Conservation
• Forestry

Careers That Fisheries Grads May Go Into

A degree in fisheries can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Worker Supervisors	170	$47,880
Fish and Game Wardens	170	$59,930

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Abhijitsathe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.