Studying general courses was the trend once, but the arena has changed now. The present education arena states that the courses that are chosen for the course have variety of advantage in them, and the ones that are preferred are new, advanced and modern. The demand for new and advanced course is very high all over the country. The courses that are preferred now a day are the ones that are advanced and well equipped with those materials which are either very interesting or have wide prospects of job and career, like M.Sc in Aquaculture.

As the name suggests, aquaculture is basically, the study or plants and animals that live in the aquatic habitat. The course chiefly deals with the study of the living pattern and the life cycle of aquatic animals and plants! The course is basically meant for those who are more interested in the water life and want to study the living organism in water.

There are plenty of colleges that offer this course to the candidates. Though the course is a bit rare but yet the colleges are not less. Few famous and renowned institutes also offer this course to the interested candidates. There are plenty of government and private colleges under which this course can be studied.

The colleges that offer this course to the interested candidates are IIIT, Andhra University, Vidyasagar University, College of Fisheries in Panangad, The Central Institute of Fisheries Education in Mumbai, Cochin University of Science and Technology Kochi, Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, M.Sc Fishery Biology and Aquaculture, School of Applied Life Sciences. The fee structure of these colleges varies and depends on the authority of the colleges. Vidya Sagar University Charges Rs 22800 per annum. Andhra University charges Rs2700 to 2800 per annum for this course.

The colleges follow reservation and quota norms as per the rules of the government, for the lower and backward caste students.