2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Science in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$24,924
Avg Salary
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In 2021-2022, 374 people earned their degree in marine science, making the major the 295th most popular in the United States. In , marine science graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $26,266 and had an average of $22,075 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 101 marine science graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,924 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 73 marine science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in marine science. That schools that top this list have a program in marine science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree marine science students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Science in the New England Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s marine science degrees to 71 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Maine Marine Science Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Maine Maritime Academy landed the #2 spot on the list. Maine Maritime Academy is a small school located in Castine, Maine that handed out 2 bachelors’s marine science 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Maine Maritime Marine Science Report
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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%.
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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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