2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in the Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 49 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in the Southeast Region

1

Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Atlantic University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Boca Raton, Florida, and it awarded 9 masters’s marine sciences degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Florida Atlantic University Marine Sciences Report

2

Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Nova Southeastern University landed the #2 spot on the list. NUS Florida is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 masters’s marine sciences degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%.

Read full report on Marine Sciences at Nova Southeastern University

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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