2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the New England Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Marine Biology is the 298th most popular major in the country with 1,994 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 214 marine biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 marine biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,012 and $13,730 respectively.
This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in marine biology.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree biological oceanography students.
Top 1 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the New England Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Maine Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in South Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school awarded 10 degrees to qualified associates’s biological oceanography students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Marine Biology at SMCC
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- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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