2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the Southwest 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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Marine Biology is the 298th most popular major in the country with 1,835 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 132 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 $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in marine biology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their marine biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the Southwest Region”.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the Southwest Region

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Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M Corpus Christi is a fairly large public school situated in Corpus Christi, Texas. It awarded 3 masters’s biological oceanography degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Marine Biology at Texas A&M Corpus Christi

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Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, Texas

#7 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Oceanography Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas A&M College Station is a large public school situated in College Station, Texas. It awarded 13 masters’s biological oceanography degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Marine Biology at Texas A&M University - College Station

• 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

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