2022 Best Value Marine Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Marine Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Marine Science is the 304th most popular major in the country with 312 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, marine science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,200 and had an average of $21,630 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 22 marine science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 marine science graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality marine science 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 science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Marine Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Marine Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree marine science students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Science in the Southeast Region

#1

Florida Atlantic University

Boca Raton, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$18,482 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Atlantic University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Marine Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Boca Raton, Florida, and it awarded 3 masters’s marine science degrees in 2019-2020.

FAU also made our “Best Marine Science Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at FAU are $18,482, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Marine Science at Florida Atlantic 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

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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