If you're seeking a degree in marine engineering technology, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #1300 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Marine Engineering Technology Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 106 degrees in marine engineering technology annually.
The marine engineering technology 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 Engineering Technology Schools.
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Best Schools for Marine Engineering Technology in the United States
The schools below may not offer all types of marine engineering technology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
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).