2023 Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s
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Degrees Awarded
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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 “Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 107 marine biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in marine biology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular marine biology programs in the United States.
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Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree biological oceanography students.
Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 98 bachelors’s biological oceanography degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is a public institution located in Edinburg, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 full report on Marine Biology at UT Rio Grande Valley
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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
- *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.
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