2024 Best Marine Biology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Connecticut

Marine Biology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #191 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Marine Biology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 49 bachelor's degrees in marine biology during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on marine biology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of marine biology students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized marine biology related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for marine biology students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Marine Biology Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Marine Biology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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

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

Top Connecticut Schools for a Bachelor's in Biological Oceanography

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

15 Annual Graduates

University of Connecticut is a wonderful decision for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in marine biology. UCONN is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Storrs.More information about a bachelor’s in marine biology from University of Connecticut

2

University of New Haven
West Haven, CT

32 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in marine biology needs to check out University of New Haven. University of New Haven is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of West Haven.More information about a bachelor’s in marine biology from University of New Haven

Best Marine Biology Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Marine Biology Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	581	41
Rhode Island	307	61
Maine	281	36

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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	58
Evolutionary Biology	23

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.