2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Science in the Southwest Region

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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 Southwest region, there were 45 marine science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 marine science graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Science in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg, Texas

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 Science Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Edinburg, Texas, and it awarded 9 masters’s marine science degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.1% 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 more about Marine Science at UT Rio Grande Valley

2

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

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Corpus Christi, Texas, this fairly large public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified masters’s marine science students 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 Corpus Christi Marine Science Report

3

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 #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the Southwest Region. The University of Texas at Austin is a large public school situated in Austin, Texas. It awarded 2 masters’s marine science 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 Science at The University of Texas at 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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