2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Science in the New England Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Marine Science is the 295th most popular major in the country with 334 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 marine science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the New England Region

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Science in the New England Region

1

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the New England Region. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s marine science degrees to 9 students 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%.

Read more about Marine Science at UMaine

2

University of Massachusetts - Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts - Boston. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the New England Region. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this fairly large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s marine science students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Marine Science at UMass Boston

3

University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the New England Region. University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth is a medium-sized school located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts that handed out 1 masters’s marine science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Marine Science at UMass Dartmouth

4

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

Top 25% overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marine Science Major in the New England Region list. UMass Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s marine science degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

Full University of Massachusetts Amherst Marine Science Report

• Most Focused Master’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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