by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 285 people earned their degree in ocean engineering, making the major the 306th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, ocean engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $61,550 and had an average of $24,820 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 4 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in ocean engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree oe students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern Michigan College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This small school is located in Traverse City, Michigan, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s OE degrees in 2020-2021.
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