2025 Best Marine Biology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maine

a bachelor's degree in marine biology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #191 out of 1232 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Maine to determine which ones were the best for marine biology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 85 bachelor's degrees in marine biology to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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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 colleges for marine biology students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Marine Biology Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Marine Biology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maine list to help you make the college decision.

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

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in marine biology.

Top Maine Schools for a Bachelor's in Biological Oceanography

1

University of New England
Biddeford, ME

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

35 Annual Graduates

University of New England is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in marine biology. Located in the suburb of Biddeford, UNE is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a bachelor’s in marine biology from University of New England

2

Unity College
New Gloucester, ME

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

35 Annual Graduates

Unity College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in marine biology. Unity is a medium-sized private not-for-profit college located in the rural area of New Gloucester.More information about a bachelor’s in marine biology from Unity College

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
Connecticut	341	49
Rhode Island	307	61

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Marine Biology Related Rankings by Major

One of 12 majors within the Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology area of study, Marine Biology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Conservation Biology	47
Evolutionary Biology	7

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.