2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 1,835 people earned their degree in marine biology, making the major the 298th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 219 marine biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 marine biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in marine biology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in marine biology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree biological oceanography students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the New England Region

1

Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts

#20 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeastern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the New England Region list. Northeastern University is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 masters’s biological oceanography degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Read full report on Marine Biology at Northeastern

2

University of New England
Biddeford, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New England. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the New England Region list. Located in Biddeford, Maine, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s biological oceanography students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Marine Biology at University of New England

3

University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Lowell landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Lowell, Massachusetts, this fairly large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s biological oceanography students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Massachusetts - Lowell Marine Biology Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Biology

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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

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