2022 Best Value General OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

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In 2019-2020, 302 people earned their degree in general ocean engineering, making the major the 694th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 113 general ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 general ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value General OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general ocean engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general ocean engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general ocean 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 General OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Ocean Engineering in the Southeast Region

#1

Florida Atlantic University

Boca Raton, Florida

#2 in overall quality

$10,186 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida Atlantic University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Boca Raton, Florida, and it awarded 24 bachelors’s general OE degrees in 2019-2020.

FAU also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Ocean Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $10,186 for southeast region bachelor’s degree general oe students per year to attend FAU.

Read more about General Ocean Engineering at FAU

#2

Florida Institute of Technology

Melbourne, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$31,097 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value General OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Florida Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Melbourne, Florida. It awarded 25 bachelors’s general OE degrees in 2019-2020.

Florida Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Ocean Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $31,097 for southeast region bachelor’s degree general oe students per year to attend Florida Tech.

Read more about General Ocean Engineering at Florida Tech

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Ocean Engineering

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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