2022 Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 474 people earned their degree in marine engineering, making the major the 279th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, marine engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $78,460 and had an average of $24,129 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 21 marine engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 marine engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great marine engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the marine engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree marine engineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Engineering in the Southeast Region

#1

University of New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$11,193 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Orleans landed the #1 spot on the list. University of New Orleans is a medium-sized school located in New Orleans, Louisiana that handed out 16 bachelors’s marine engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UNO also took the #1 spot in our “Best Marine Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $11,193 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Marine Engineering students per year to attend University of New Orleans.

Read more about Marine Engineering at UNO

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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