2022 Most Popular Bachelor's Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in Connecticut

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in marine biology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #197 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2022 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the most popular for marine biology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 24 bachelor's degrees in marine biology during the 2019-2020 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Marine Biology School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of school for getting your bachelor's degree in biological oceanography matters. As an aid in helping you pick the right school for you, we created our Most Popular Bachelor's Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in Connecticut ranking.

While being high in popularity does not always mean a school has a quality marine biology program, it is a sign that a large number of students choose the school. Sometimes this is because the school offers a great educational experience, it is a good value, or it is highly focused on the program.

More Ways to Rank Marine Biology Schools

We have also developed a number of other rankings to help guide you in your decision-making process. To begin with, if this is not the degree level you are most interested in, you may want to check out one of the others noted above. If you would prefer to limit your search to a specific state or region of the county, see our rankings by location. Plus, you can view our other rankings for marine biology.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Most Popular Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Marine Biology in Connecticut

Learn about the most popular colleges and universities for marine biology students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Most Well Attended Schools for Biological Oceanography Students Working on Their Bachelor's

1

University of New Haven
West Haven, CT

13 Annual Bachelor's Degrees

#1 Best Quality In CT

You'll be surrounded by many like-minded peers at University of New Haven if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in marine biology. University of New Haven is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of West Haven. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #1 in quality for bachelor's degrees in marine biology in Connecticut.

There were roughly 13 marine biology students who graduated with this degree at University of New Haven in the most recent year we have data available.

More information about a bachelor’s in marine biology from University of New Haven

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University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

11 Annual Bachelor's Degrees

#2 Best Quality In CT

You'll be surrounded by many like-minded peers at University of Connecticut if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in marine biology. UCONN is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Storrs. You also may be intersted to know that the school ranks #2 in quality for bachelor's degrees in marine biology in Connecticut.

There were roughly 11 marine biology individuals who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent data year.

More information about a bachelor’s in marine biology from University of Connecticut

3

Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, CT

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in marine biology has to check out Sacred Heart University. Located in the large suburb of Fairfield, Sacred Heart is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. More information about a bachelor’s in marine biology from Sacred Heart University

Best Marine Biology Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Most Popular Marine Biology Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	540	51
Rhode Island	298	85
Maine	262	40

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Marine Biology Related Rankings by Major

One of 11 majors within the Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology area of study, Marine Biology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Biological Oceanography

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Ecology	37
Evolutionary Biology	32

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ernst Haeckel. More about our data sources and methodologies.