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

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In 2020-2021, 334 people earned their degree in marine science, making the major the 295th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, marine science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,266 and had an average of $22,416 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 75 marine science graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,924 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 52 marine science 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 Science Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in marine science. That schools that top this list have a program in marine science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

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

1

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

$24,924 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,000 Average Student Debt

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 Science Major in the New England Region list. UMaine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 52 bachelors’s marine science degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%.

Full University of Maine Marine Science 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 Science Major in the New England Region list. Maine Maritime Academy is a public institution located in Castine, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees 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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Marine Science at Maine Maritime

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Science

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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