2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in the Southeast Region

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Marine Sciences is the 679th most popular major in the country with 374 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southeast region, there were 49 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in marine sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in marine sciences.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in the Southeast Region

1

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Florida. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. University of Florida is located in Gainesville, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 18 bachelors’s marine sciences degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Full University of Florida Marine Sciences Report

2

Eckerd College
Saint Petersburg, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eckerd College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. Eckerd College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Petersburg, Florida. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%.

Full Eckerd College Marine Sciences Report

2

The College of the Florida Keys
Key West, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The College of the Florida Keys. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. This small school is located in Key West, Florida, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s marine sciences degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Marine Sciences at CFK

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.

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