2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Marine Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Marine Sciences is the 738th most popular major in the country with 312 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 24 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,887 and $46,998 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality marine sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the marine sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Marine Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Marine Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree marine sciences students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)

#1

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, New York

#1 in overall quality

$25,583 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stony Brook University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Marine Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid list. This large school is located in Stony Brook, New York, and it awarded 10 masters’s marine sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

SUNY Stony Brook also took the #1 spot in our “Best Marine Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at SUNY Stony Brook are $25,583.

Read full report on Marine Sciences at Stony Brook University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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