2024 Best Marine Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York

If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in marine engineering, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #220 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of marine engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 108 bachelor's degrees in marine engineering to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on marine engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other marine engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt marine engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized marine engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for marine engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Marine Engineering Schools

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 Marine Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Marine Engineering in New York

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in marine engineering.

Top New York Schools for a Bachelor's in Marine Engineering

1

SUNY Maritime College
Throggs Neck, NY

13 Annual Graduates

$71,291 Median Starting Salary

$27,000 Median Student Debt

It's hard to beat SUNY Maritime College if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in marine engineering. Located in the large city of Throggs Neck, SUNY Maritime College is a public college with a small student population.

Soon after graduation, marine engineering bachelor's recipients typically make an average of $71,291 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a bachelor’s in marine engineering from SUNY Maritime College

2

Webb Institute
Glen Cove, NY

22 Annual Graduates

$70,908 Median Starting Salary

Webb Institute is a great option for students interested in a bachelor's degree in marine engineering. Located in the suburb of Glen Cove, Webb Institute is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the marine engineering program report average early career earnings of $70,908.

More information about a bachelor’s in marine engineering from Webb Institute

Best Marine Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Marine Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Maryland	207	20
New Jersey	193	0

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Marine Engineering Related Rankings by Major

Marine Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

Marine Engineering Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering	108

Most Popular Majors Related to Marine Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	2,014
Electrical Engineering	888
Civil Engineering	659
Biomedical Engineering	639
Chemical Engineering	564
Computer Engineering	516
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	288
Industrial Engineering	238
Environmental Engineering	209
Operations Research	173

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.