2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering in the Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 49 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the Middle Atlantic 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 Master’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey

Top 10% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stevens Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Hoboken, New Jersey, and it awarded 6 masters’s OE degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology

2

University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware

Top 15% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Delaware landed the #2 spot on the list. Newark, Delaware is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s OE degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Full UD Ocean Engineering Report

• Most Focused Master’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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