2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the New England Region

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In 2021-2022, 374 people earned their degree in marine sciences, making the major the 679th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 101 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 73 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in marine sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their marine sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree marine sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in the New England Region

1

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school awarded 71 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s marine sciences students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Marine Sciences at UMaine

2

Maine Maritime Academy
Castine, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Maine Maritime Academy. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the New England Region list. Castine, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s marine sciences degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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%.

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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.

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