2023 Most Well Attended General OE Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended General OE Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 57 general ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended General OE Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” 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 one of the most popular general ocean engineering programs in the United States.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended General OE Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’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 Most Well Attended General OE Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s. Florida Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Melbourne, Florida. It awarded 34 bachelors’s general OE degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Florida Tech General Ocean Engineering Report

2

Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended General OE Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida Atlantic University landed the #2 spot on the list. FAU is a large school located in Boca Raton, Florida that handed out 23 bachelors’s general OE degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Florida Atlantic University General Ocean Engineering Report

• Most Popular 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

• *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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