2023 Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 37 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in ocean engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful ocean engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ocean Engineering in the New England Region

1

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

$60,071 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s list. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s OE degrees to 27 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate 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%.

Read full report on Ocean Engineering at University of Rhode Island

2

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Durham, New Hampshire, this fairly large public school awarded 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s OE students in 2020-2021.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Ocean Engineering at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

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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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