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2023 Most Focused Colleges for Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer in Massachusetts

1 Ranked Colleges

33 Degrees Awarded

$30,000 Avg Cost*

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer Major in Massachusetts” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 412 people earned their degree in marine science/merchant marine officer, making the major the 631st most popular in the United States.

Across Massachusetts, there were 33 marine science/merchant marine officer graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in marine science/merchant marine officer.

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Schools Highly Focused on Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer Major in Massachusetts

The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts marine science/merchant marine officer students.

Top 1 Most Focused Colleges for Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer in Massachusetts

Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

#19 overall quality in Massachusetts

$69,069 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,444 Average Student Debt

Out of the 1 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts Maritime Academy landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, this small public school handed out 33 diplomas to qualified ’s marine science/merchant marine officer students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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

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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