2024 Best Marine Biology Schools in Connecticut

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for marine biology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 22 degrees in marine biology during the 2021-2022 academic year.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Marine Biology Schools List

Pick Your Marine Biology Degree Level

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Marine Biology Schools in Connecticut ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

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Best Schools for Marine Biology in Connecticut

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.

Top Connecticut Schools in Biological Oceanography

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

It's difficult to beat University of Connecticut if you want to pursue a degree in marine biology. UCONN is a very large public university located in the suburb of Storrs.More information about a degree in marine biology from University of Connecticut

2

University of New Haven
West Haven, CT

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

University of New Haven is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in marine biology. University of New Haven is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of West Haven.More information about a degree in marine biology from University of New Haven

Best Marine Biology Colleges in the New England Region

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

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Marine Biology Related Rankings by Major

Marine Biology is one of 12 different types of Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Biological Oceanography

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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.