2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Maritime Studies

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Maritime Studies is the 352nd most popular major in the country with 60 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , maritime studies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $0 and had an average of $20,971 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 maritime studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in maritime studies. That schools that top this list have a program in maritime studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree maritime studies students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Maritime Studies

1

SUNY Maritime College
Throggs Neck, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Maritime College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major. SUNY Maritime College is a small public school situated in Throggs Neck, New York. It awarded 10 masters’s maritime studies degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Maritime Studies at SUNY Maritime College

2

East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Carolina University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major. Located in Greenville, North Carolina, this large public school handed out 10 degrees to qualified masters’s maritime studies 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%.

Read full report on Maritime Studies at East Carolina University

3

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Maine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 2 masters’s maritime studies degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UMaine Maritime Studies Report

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Whit Welles.