2025 Best Marine Engineering Schools in the New England Region
2Colleges in the New England Region
154Marine Engineering Degrees Awarded
$89,443Avg Early-Career Salary
Marine Engineering degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #285 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for marine engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 154 degrees in marine engineering annually.
The marine engineering 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 Schools in the New England Region.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Marine Engineering in the New England Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the marine engineering degree levels they offer.
Top New England Region Schools in Marine Engineering
Maine Maritime Academy is a great option for students pursuing a degree in marine engineering. Maine Maritime is a fairly small public school located in the rural area of Castine.
Degree recipients from the marine engineering major at Maine Maritime Academy make $18,687 more than the average college graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
Massachusetts Maritime Academy is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in marine engineering. Located in the large suburb of Buzzards Bay, Maritime is a public school with a small student population.
Degree recipients from the marine engineering major at Massachusetts Maritime Academy earn $10,581 above the typical college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
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).
