2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Marine Sciences is the 679th most popular major in the country with 334 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 75 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 52 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in marine sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in marine sciences.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree marine sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in the New England Region

1

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the New England Region list. UMaine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 52 bachelors’s marine sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Maine Marine Sciences Report

2

Maine Maritime Academy
Castine, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Maine Maritime Academy. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the New England Region list. Located in Castine, Maine, this small public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s marine sciences students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Maine Maritime Academy Marine Sciences Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences

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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