2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the New England Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Biological Oceanography Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 New England region, there were 216 marine biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 marine biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great marine biology programs and 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Biological Oceanography Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Biological Oceanography Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Biological Oceanography Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the New England Region

#1

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$25,558 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Biological Oceanography Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Northeastern University is a large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 18 masters’s biological oceanography degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Northeastern, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Marine Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northeastern University are $25,558, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Marine Biology at Northeastern

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ernst Haeckel.

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