2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
43
Degrees Awarded
$60,071
Avg Salary
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Ocean Engineering is the 306th most popular major in the country with 296 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , ocean engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $61,550 and had an average of $26,574 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 64 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,071 and $26,294 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in ocean engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in ocean engineering.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree oe students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering in the New England Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #1 spot on the list. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s oe degrees to 26 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Hampshire - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Durham, New Hampshire is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s oe degrees to 17 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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%.
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- *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.
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