2022 Best Value OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
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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 Southwest region, there were 68 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,200 and $22,204 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 52 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great ocean engineering programs and 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.
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Best Value OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.
Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value OE Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Texas A&M College Station is a large school located in College Station, Texas that handed out 52 bachelors’s OE degrees in 2019-2020.
Texas A&M College Station also took the #1 spot in our “Best Ocean Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $19,057 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree OE students per year to attend Texas A&M College Station.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Ocean Engineering at Texas A&M University - College Station
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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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