2022 Best Value OE Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value OE Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 302 people earned their degree in ocean engineering, making the major the 297th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, ocean engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $61,200 and had an average of $26,965 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 59 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $25,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,889 and $109,372 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great ocean engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the ocean engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value OE Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree oe students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$29,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value OE Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s OE degrees in 2019-2020.

URI not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Ocean Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Rhode Island are $29,082, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Ocean Engineering at University of Rhode Island

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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