2025 Best Marine Biology Schools in South Carolina
3Colleges in South Carolina
234Biological Oceanography Degrees Awarded
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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in South Carolina 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 234 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 South Carolina.
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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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 South Carolina Schools in Biological Oceanography
University of South Carolina - Columbia is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in marine biology. UofSC is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Columbia. A Best Colleges rank of #99 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UofSC is a great university overall.
There were about 60 marine biology students who graduated with this degree at UofSC in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in marine biology needs to check out Coastal Carolina University. Located in the city of Conway, Coastal Carolina University is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 12th out of 45 schools for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were roughly 131 marine biology students who graduated with this degree at Coastal Carolina University in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in marine biology has to look into College of Charleston. Located in the city of Charleston, C of C is a public college with a large student population. This college ranks 6th out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were roughly 43 marine biology students who graduated with this degree at C of C 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.
