2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 60 people earned their degree in maritime studies, making the major the 1116th most popular in the United States.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 maritime studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in maritime studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in maritime studies.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree maritime studies students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Maritime Studies
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Maritime College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major list. Located in Throggs Neck, New York, this small public school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified masters’s maritime studies students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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 Maritime Studies at SUNY Maritime College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Carolina University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major list. ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 10 masters’s maritime studies degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 full report on Maritime Studies at ECU
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #3 spot on the list. UMaine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 UMaine Maritime Studies Report
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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
- *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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