2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Marine Sciences is the 679th most popular major in the country with 374 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 45 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree marine sciences students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is a public institution located in Edinburg, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Marine Sciences at UT Rio Grande Valley
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi is a public institution located in Corpus Christi, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi Marine Sciences Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. UT Austin is a public institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Marine Sciences at UT Austin
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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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