Best Marine Science Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Marine Science Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Marine Science School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of marine science for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality marine science program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on marine science students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other marine science students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for marine science to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized marine science related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for marine science students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

On account of lacking data, we could not provide you with the marine science quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer marine science and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Marine Science by Region

View the Best Marine Science Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Marine Science

Marine Science is one of 51 different types of Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies programs to choose from.

Marine Science Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Marine Sciences	28

Majors Similar to Marine Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	196
Nutrition Science	178
Behavioral Science	150
Computational Science	91
Biological & Physical Science	83
Cognitive Science	76
Interdisciplinary Studies	71
Geography and Environmental Studies	52
Sustainability Science	50
Systems Theory	41

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Daderot. More about our data sources and methodologies.