2023 Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate

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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 the New England region, there were 60 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,071 and $26,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in ocean engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in ocean engineering.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate

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

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

1

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 Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate list. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s OE degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Rhode Island Ocean Engineering Report

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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 Doctorate list. UNH is located in Durham, New Hampshire and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s OE degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, 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 more about Ocean Engineering at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

• Most Popular Doctor’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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