2024 Best Marine Biology Schools in the Southwest Region
2Colleges in the Southwest Region
132Biological Oceanography Degrees Awarded
Marine Biology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #298 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of marine biology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 132 degrees in marine biology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The biological oceanography school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Marine Biology Schools in the Southwest Region.
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Best Schools for Marine Biology in the Southwest Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the biological oceanography degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southwest Region Schools in Biological Oceanography
Any student who is interested in marine biology has to check out Texas A&M University - College Station. Texas A&M College Station is a very large public university located in the city of College Station. A Best Colleges rank of #44 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Texas A&M College Station is a great university overall.
There were approximately 118 marine biology students who graduated with this degree at Texas A&M College Station in the most recent data year.
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in marine biology. UT Rio Grande Valley is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Edinburg. This university ranks 21st out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were about 9 marine biology students who graduated with this degree at UT Rio Grande Valley in the most recent year we have data available.
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in marine biology. Texas A&M Corpus Christi is a fairly large public university located in the city of Corpus Christi. This university ranks 55th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were about 5 marine biology students who graduated with this degree at Texas A&M Corpus Christi in the most recent data year.
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).
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