2023 Most Popular Colleges for Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Naval Architecture Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 445 people earned their degree in naval architecture and marine engineering, making the major the 620th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 23 naval architecture and marine engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Naval Architecture Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in naval architecture and marine engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular naval architecture and marine engineering programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Naval Architecture Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Naval Architecture Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering in the Southeast Region

1

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

$38,004 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,414 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Orleans. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Naval Architecture Major in the Southeast Region list. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s naval architecture degrees to 22 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering at University of New Orleans

2

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#7 overall quality in Southeast

$52,444 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,013 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Naval Architecture Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Blacksburg, Virginia, and it awarded 1 ’s naval architecture degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering at Virginia Tech

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.