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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 in the New England Region for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that 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 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 “Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 2 Most Popular Master’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 Master’s list. URI is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 masters’s OE degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. 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 URI

2

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Hampshire - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Durham, New Hampshire. It awarded 5 masters’s OE degrees 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%. 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 Popular 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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