2024 Best Ocean Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in ocean engineering, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #267 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for ocean engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 57 bachelor's degrees in ocean engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to ocean engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of ocean engineering students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt ocean engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized ocean engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for ocean engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The oe school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Ocean Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region.

In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Ocean Engineering in the Southeast Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in ocean engineering.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in OE

1

Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

23 Annual Graduates

$61,746 Median Starting Salary

$29,000 Median Student Debt

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in ocean engineering needs to take a look at Florida Atlantic University. Located in the small city of Boca Raton, FAU is a public university with a very large student population.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the oe program make an average of $61,746 in the first couple years of working.

More information about a bachelor’s in ocean engineering from Florida Atlantic University

2

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, FL

34 Annual Graduates

$60,121 Median Starting Salary

$27,000 Median Student Debt

Florida Institute of Technology is a good option for students interested in a bachelor's degree in ocean engineering. Located in the small city of Melbourne, Florida Tech is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the oe program report average early career wages of $60,121.

More information about a bachelor’s in ocean engineering from Florida Institute of Technology

Best Ocean Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best ocean engineering colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	57

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Rankings in Majors Related to OE

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Ocean Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

OE Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Ocean Engineering	57

Majors Similar to OE

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	8,016
Civil Engineering	3,589
Electrical Engineering	3,355
Computer Engineering	2,475
Chemical Engineering	2,172
Biomedical Engineering	1,854
Industrial Engineering	1,714
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	1,652
General Engineering	682
Systems Engineering	358

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jplourde umaine. More about our data sources and methodologies.