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2023 Most Focused Colleges for Marine Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region

1 Ranked Colleges

27 Degrees Awarded

$30,500 Avg Cost*

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 27 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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 Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 1 Most Focused Colleges for Marine Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region

Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York

$53,237 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,121 Average Student Debt

Out of the 1 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Marine Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stony Brook University landed the #1 spot on the list. SUNY Stony Brook is located in Stony Brook, New York and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 27 ’s marine sciences degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%.

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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

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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