2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Science in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking.

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 Southwest region, there were 35 marine science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 marine science graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in marine science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in marine science.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Science in the Southwest Region

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

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the Southwest Region. Texas A&M Corpus Christi is a fairly large school located in Corpus Christi, Texas that handed out 5 doctorate’s marine science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Marine Science at Texas A&M Corpus Christi

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The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #2 spot on the list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s marine science degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Marine Science at The University of Texas at Austin

• Most Focused Doctor’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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