2005
Schuylkill Headwaters Association

2004
Pennsylvania DEP
North Carolina Fish and Game
Tellico Trout Farm
Indiana DNR
Cook Inlet Aquaculture ( Alaska)
Boy Scouts of America
Purdue University
US Fish and Wildlife Service ( Alaska)
NC State University

2003
New York DEC hatchery
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Yellowstone National Park
New Jersey State Fish Hatchery
Pennsylvania DEP

2002
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Auburn University
Atlantis Aquaculture
North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources
Private trout farm in North Carolina
Wyoming Fish and Game
Pennsylvania DEP
Alaska Fish and Game

Job Placement

Placement and Assessment: Our assessment document divides MU fisheries graduates into two groups: Those eligible for entry to graduate school and those whose grades will probably preclude their acceptance to graduate school. In the five years from 1993 to 1998, 35 students graduated with the BS in Fisheries degree. Eight of these graduates had grade point averages near or greater than 3.0 and thus had a high probability for acceptance to graduate school. Five applied to MS programs in fisheries, and four of these have received their Masters degrees. The fifth candidate graduated in December, 1998, and has not been accepted yet to any of the schools to which he has applied. The other three graduates in the high scholastic group chose employment over advanced study. Our assessment criterion for students with grade point averages greater than 2.9 predicted that 80% of those who applied to graduate school would be accepted, 90% would consider their undergraduate preparation to be superior to those of their peers and 75% of those who began graduate school would obtain the MS degree. The first five years of assessment show 80% for the first of these three assessment criteria and 100% for the other two. We expected a large number of the other 27 MU fisheries graduates to find professional employment in the fisheries field. Our assessment criteria predicted that 75% of graduates in the lower scholastic category, who actively pursued fisheries employment would find a seasonal or permanent job with 6 months of graduation and that 50% would have permanent professional positions within 2 years. Thirteen graduates obtained permanent career positions soon after graduation. Five others still hold seasonal professional positions. Thus 67% of category 2 graduates were employed following graduation and 48% hold permanent professional positions. Two of the category 1 students who chose employment over graduate school are employed in fisheries. Seven graduates are employed in non-fisheries fields and we have lost contact with two. Thus of the graduates who did not attend graduate school, actively searched for a fisheries job and were willing to relocate, 100% have permanent or seasonal positions in fisheries and 75% have permanent career positions. No one who actively searched for a fisheries position and was willing to relocate failed to find at least continuing seasonal positions.

Recent Employment of Graduates

Class of 2005
University of Arizona
Western Michigan University
Limestone Springs (Trout farm)

Class of 2004
Mt Parnell, Aqua Survey Inc. (ecotoxicology)

Class of 2003
Godiva Chocolate, Food Inspection
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
PA DEP
Mt Parnell, Pharmacy school
NC State University

Class of 2002
Private fish farm in North Carolina
Mt. Parnell Fisheries
Makah Tribe, Washington
Western Kentucky University
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission

Class of 2001
Private fish farm in North Carolina
Illinois Natural History Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
Graduate school at MU in teacher education
Graduate school at MU in teacher education