2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 New England region, there were 60 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,071 and $26,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 37 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in ocean engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in ocean engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering in the New England Region

1

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

$60,071 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region list. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s OE degrees to 27 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Ocean Engineering at University of Rhode Island

2

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Hampshire - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Durham, New Hampshire. It awarded 10 bachelors’s OE degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Ocean Engineering at UNH

• Most Focused 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

• *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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