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

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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 Southeast region, there were 116 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,934 and $25,391 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 57 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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 Southeast Region

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

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

1

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, Florida

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

$60,121 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,388 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Melbourne, Florida, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 34 degrees to qualified bachelors’s OE students in 2020-2021.

Full Florida Tech Ocean Engineering Report

2

Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

$61,746 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,393 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Atlantic University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Boca Raton, Florida, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s 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%.

Read more about Ocean Engineering at FAU

• 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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