2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General OE Major 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. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General OE Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Ocean Engineering is the 732nd most popular major in the country with 285 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 116 general ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 general ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General OE Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general ocean engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general ocean engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General OE Major in the Southeast Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Ocean Engineering in the Southeast Region

1

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, Florida

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General OE Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Melbourne, Florida, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified doctorate’s general OE students in 2020-2021.

Full Florida Institute of Technology General Ocean Engineering Report

2

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Florida. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General OE Major in the Southeast Region. Gainesville, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s general OE degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about General Ocean Engineering at University of Florida

3

Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida Atlantic University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General OE Major in the Southeast Region. FAU is located in Boca Raton, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 doctorate’s general OE degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University

• Most Focused Doctor’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

• *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.

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