2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 15 marine biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 marine biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in marine biology. To top this list, a school must have a successful marine biology program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Biology in the Plains States Region

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Northwest Missouri State University
Maryville, Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwest Missouri State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s. Located in Maryville, Missouri, this medium-sized public school handed out 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s biological oceanography students in 2020-2021.

Full Northwest Missouri State University Marine Biology Report

2

Central Methodist University - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Fayette, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Methodist University - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s list. Central Methodist University - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is a small school located in Fayette, Missouri that handed out 5 bachelors’s biological oceanography degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Marine Biology at Central Methodist University - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

3

Southwestern College
Winfield, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern College. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Biological Oceanography Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s. Winfield, Kansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s biological oceanography degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Marine Biology at Southwestern College

• Most Popular Bachelor’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.