2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering 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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Ocean Engineering is the 297th most popular major in the country with 302 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, ocean engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $61,200 and had an average of $26,965 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 113 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $30,328 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in ocean engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent ocean engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the ocean engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Value OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

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

#1

Florida Atlantic University

Boca Raton, Florida

#2 in overall quality

$10,186 Average Net Price

$61,303 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Atlantic University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Florida Atlantic University is a large public school situated in Boca Raton, Florida. It awarded 24 bachelors’s OE degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree oe students list, FAU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Ocean Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend FAU is $10,186 for southeast region bachelor’s degree oe students.

Full FAU Ocean Engineering Report

#2

Florida Institute of Technology

Melbourne, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$31,097 Average Net Price

$64,493 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Florida Tech is located in Melbourne, Florida and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 25 bachelors’s OE degrees to qualified students.

Florida Tech also took the #1 spot in our “Best Ocean Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $31,097 for southeast region bachelor’s degree oe students per year to attend Florida Institute of Technology.

Read more about Ocean Engineering at Florida Tech

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for 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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