2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering in Florida

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Florida” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Ocean Engineering is the 306th most popular major in the country with 285 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Florida, there were 97 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 $38,395 and $25,950 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in Florida” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in ocean engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in ocean engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in Florida

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering in Florida

1

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, Florida

#7 overall quality in Florida

$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 Florida 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 handed out 34 degrees to qualified bachelors’s OE students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Ocean Engineering at Florida Tech

2

Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida

#14 overall quality in Florida

$61,746 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,393 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on OE Major in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida Atlantic University landed the #2 spot on the list. FAU is located in Boca Raton, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 23 bachelors’s OE degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Florida Atlantic University Ocean Engineering Report

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