2023 Most Popular Colleges for Ocean Engineering in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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” 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.

Across the New England region, there were 60 ocean engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,071 and $26,000 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in ocean engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in ocean engineering.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Ocean Engineering in the New England Region

1

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

$44,926 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,193 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended OE Major in the New England Region. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 37 ’s OE degrees in 2020-2021.

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

Read more about Ocean Engineering at University of Rhode Island

2

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

$42,868 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,111 Average Student Debt

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 list. UNH is a fairly large public school situated in Durham, New Hampshire. It awarded 23 ’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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Ocean Engineering at UNH

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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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