2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering in the New England 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 New England region, there were 60 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,071 and $26,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in ocean engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their ocean engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree oe students.

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

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University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region list. URI is a fairly large public school situated in Kingston, Rhode Island. It awarded 7 masters’s OE degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full URI Ocean Engineering Report

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University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on OE Major in the New England Region. University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is a public institution located in Durham, New Hampshire. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Ocean Engineering at UNH

• 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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