2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Biological Oceanography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,914 people earned their degree in marine biology, making the major the 288th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1 marine biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 marine biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent marine biology 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 marine biology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Biological Oceanography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Biological Oceanography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree biological oceanography students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Wisconsin Lutheran College

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$20,899 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wisconsin Lutheran College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Biological Oceanography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s biological oceanography students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WLC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Marine Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $20,899 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Biological Oceanography students per year to attend Wisconsin Lutheran College.

Full Wisconsin Lutheran College Marine Biology Report

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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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