by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended OE Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 173 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended OE Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in ocean engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular ocean engineering programs in the United States.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended OE Major for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend United States Naval Academy. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended OE Major for a Bachelor’s list. Annapolis is a small school located in Annapolis, Maryland that handed out 40 bachelors’s OE degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended OE Major for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in College Station, Texas, this large public school handed out 35 degrees to qualified bachelors’s OE students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Texas A&M University - College Station Ocean Engineering Report
Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended OE Major for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida Institute of Technology landed the #3 spot on the list. Melbourne, Florida is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s OE degrees to 34 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Ocean Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended OE Major for a Bachelor’s. URI is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 27 bachelors’s OE degrees to qualified students.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Atlantic University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended OE Major for a Bachelor’s list. This large school is located in Boca Raton, Florida, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s OE degrees in 2020-2021.
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%.
University of New Hampshire - Main Campus ranked #6 on this year’s Most Well Attended OE Major for a Bachelor’s list. UNH is located in Durham, New Hampshire and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s OE degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
Northwestern Michigan College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended OE Major for a Bachelor’s ranking. Located in Traverse City, Michigan, this small public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s OE students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Ocean Engineering at Northwestern Michigan College
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