2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 334 people earned their degree in marine sciences, making the major the 679th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 61 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in marine sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in marine sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree marine sciences students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida Atlantic University landed the #1 spot on the list. FAU is located in Boca Raton, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 masters’s marine sciences degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Florida Atlantic University Marine Sciences Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nova Southeastern University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. Nova Southeastern University is a large school located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that handed out 3 masters’s marine sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Marine Sciences at Nova Southeastern University
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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
- *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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