2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Maritime Studies

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 2020-2021, 50 people earned their degree in maritime studies, making the major the 352nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, maritime studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $22,750 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 maritime studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in maritime studies. That schools that top this list have a program in maritime studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Maritime Studies

1

SUNY Maritime College
Throggs Neck, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Maritime College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major. SUNY Maritime College is a small school located in Throggs Neck, New York that handed out 1 masters’s maritime studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Maritime Studies at SUNY Maritime College

2

East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

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, East Carolina University landed the #2 spot on the list. East Carolina University is a public institution located in Greenville, North Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full ECU Maritime Studies Report

3

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maritime Studies Major list. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s maritime studies students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Maritime Studies at University of Maine

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Whit Welles.