2023 Most Well Attended Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s

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 “Most Well Attended Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer is the 631st most popular major in the country with 412 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 165 marine science/merchant marine officer graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 165 marine science/merchant marine officer graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in marine science/merchant marine officer. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in marine science/merchant marine officer.

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Most Well Attended Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree marine science/merchant marine officer students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

United States Merchant Marine Academy
Kings Point, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, United States Merchant Marine Academy landed the #1 spot on the list. Kings Point, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s marine science/merchant marine officer degrees to 106 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full USMMA Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer Report

2

SUNY Maritime College
Throggs Neck, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Maritime College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s list. SUNY Maritime College is a small school located in Throggs Neck, New York that handed out 59 bachelors’s marine science/merchant marine officer 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%.

Full SUNY Maritime College Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer Report

• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer

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.