2025 Best Marine Transportation Schools in California
1College in California
88Marine Transport Degrees Awarded
$63,712Avg Early-Career Salary
If you're seeking a degree in marine transportation, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #283 one in the country in terms of popularity.This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
There was only one school in California to review for the 2025 Best Marine Transportation Schools in California ranking.
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Best Schools for Marine Transportation in California
The schools below may not offer all types of marine transport degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in marine transportation needs to check out California State University Maritime Academy. Located in the medium-sized city of Vallejo, Cal Maritime is a public university with a fairly small student population.
Those marine transportation students who get their degree from California State University Maritime Academy receive $23,752 more than the average marine transport grad.
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).
