2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 334 people earned their degree in marine sciences, making the major the 679th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 35 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in marine sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their marine sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in the Southwest Region

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The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley landed the #1 spot on the list. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is a large school located in Edinburg, Texas that handed out 4 masters’s marine sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Marine Sciences at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. Corpus Christi, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s marine sciences degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Full Texas A&M Corpus Christi Marine Sciences Report

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The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. UT Austin is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 2 masters’s marine sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Marine Sciences at UT Austin

• Most Focused Master’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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