2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 45 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in marine sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in marine sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in the Southwest Region

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Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M Corpus Christi is a fairly large public school situated in Corpus Christi, Texas. It awarded 5 doctorate’s marine sciences degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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 Texas A&M Corpus Christi Marine Sciences Report

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The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. UT Austin is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 3 doctorate’s marine sciences degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Marine Sciences at UT Austin

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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