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2022 Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

1 Ranked Colleges
8 Degrees Awarded
$49,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Marine Engineering is the 279th most popular major in the country with 474 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Great Lakes region, there were 60 marine engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,400 and $17,365 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 marine engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the marine engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region list. U-M is a public institution located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The school has a large population, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

U-M did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Marine Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at U-M are $49,548, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Marine Engineering at U-M

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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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