2024 Best Marine Biology Master's Degree Schools in Florida
3Colleges in Florida
49Master's Degrees
a master's degree in marine biology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #387 out of 1172 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Marine Biology Master's Degree Schools in Florida ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 49 master's degrees in marine biology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Marine Biology School for Your Master's Degree
The biological oceanography master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to marine biology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other marine biology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized marine biology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for marine biology students working on their master's degree.
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 Master's Degree Schools in Florida.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Marine Biology in Florida
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in marine biology.
Top Florida Schools for a Master's in Biological Oceanography
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).