2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Maritime Studies (Income $75-$110k)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Maritime Studies Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking.

Maritime Studies is the 346th most popular major in the country with 56 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, maritime studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 maritime studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent maritime studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the maritime studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Maritime Studies Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Maritime Studies Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree maritime studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Maritime Studies (Income $75-$110k)

#1

East Carolina University

Greenville, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$20,685 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Maritime Studies Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, East Carolina University landed the #1 spot on the list. Greenville, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s maritime studies degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

ECU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Maritime Studies Master’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at ECU are $20,685.

Read full report on Maritime Studies at ECU

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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