Marine Biology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #298 most popular 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 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Marine Biology Schools in Hawaii ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 106 degrees in marine biology annually.
Your choice of marine biology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for marine biology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The biological oceanography school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Marine Biology Schools in Hawaii.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the biological oceanography degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is difficult to beat University of Hawaii at Manoa if you want to pursue a degree in marine biology. UH Manoa is a large public university located in the city of Honolulu. A Best Colleges rank of #810 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UH Manoa is a great university overall.
There were roughly 51 marine biology students who graduated with this degree at UH Manoa in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Hawaii at Hilo is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in marine biology. Located in the town of Hilo, UH Hilo is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 10th out of 10 schools for overall quality in the state of Hawaii.
There were roughly 30 marine biology students who graduated with this degree at UH Hilo in the most recent data year.
Hawaii Pacific University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in marine biology. Located in the city of Honolulu, Hawaii Pacific University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 8th out of 10 schools for overall quality in the state of Hawaii.
There were roughly 25 marine biology students who graduated with this degree at Hawaii Pacific University in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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Your choice of marine biology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for marine biology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
