2025 Best Marine Biology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in marine biology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #191 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for marine biology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 113 bachelor's degrees in marine biology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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 the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Marine Biology in the Southwest Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in marine biology.

Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Biological Oceanography

1

Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

93 Annual Graduates

Texas A&M University - College Station is a great option for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in marine biology. Texas A&M College Station is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of College Station.More information about a bachelor’s in marine biology from Texas A&M University - College Station

2

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg, TX

20 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in marine biology needs to check out The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. UT Rio Grande Valley is a very large public university located in the city of Edinburg.More information about a bachelor’s in marine biology from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Best Marine Biology Colleges by State

Explore the best marine biology schools for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	572	107

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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 Majors Related to Biological Oceanography

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Ecology	120
Evolutionary Biology	68
Environmental Biology	15
Aquatic Biology/Limnology	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.