2022 Best Value OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

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 Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” 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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 37 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in ocean engineering. 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 Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree oe students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering in the New England Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#2 in overall quality

$20,607 Average Net Price

$60,128 Average Early-Career Earnings

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 Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid list. URI is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 30 bachelors’s OE degrees to qualified students.

URI also took the #2 spot in our “Best Ocean Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Rhode Island is $20,607 for new england region bachelor’s degree oe students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Ocean Engineering at University of Rhode Island

#2

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

Durham, New Hampshire

#1 in overall quality

$24,067 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Hampshire - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Durham, New Hampshire, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s OE degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNH, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Ocean Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is $24,067 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree OE students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Ocean Engineering at UNH

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering (With Aid)

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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