Marine Biology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #298 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for marine biology students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 49 degrees in marine biology to qualified students.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Marine Biology Schools in Connecticut ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the biological oceanography degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Connecticut Schools in Biological Oceanography
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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