2023 Most Focused Colleges for Marine Engineering in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Marine Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Marine Engineering is the 285th most popular major in the country with 445 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, marine engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $77,168 and had an average of $25,813 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 23 marine engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Marine Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in marine engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in marine engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools Highly Focused on Marine Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region marine engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Marine Engineering in the Southeast Region

1

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

$38,004 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,414 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Orleans. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Marine Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. UNO is a medium-sized public school situated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It awarded 22 ’s marine engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Marine Engineering at University of New Orleans

2

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#7 overall quality in Southeast

$52,444 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,013 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Marine Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, this large public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified ’s marine engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Marine Engineering at Virginia Tech

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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

• *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.