2023 Most Focused Colleges for Marine Transportation in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Transport Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Marine Transportation is the 283rd most popular major in the country with 1,203 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, marine transportation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $55,600 and had an average of $18,030 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 229 marine transportation graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,519 and $17,197 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Marine Transport Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in marine transportation. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their marine transportation program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The marine transport school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools Highly Focused on Marine Transport Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

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Schools Highly Focused on Marine Transport Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region marine transport students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Marine Transportation in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

United States Merchant Marine Academy
Kings Point, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Marine Transport Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, United States Merchant Marine Academy landed the #1 spot on the list. United States Merchant Marine Academy is a small public school situated in Kings Point, New York. It awarded 106 ’s marine transport degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Marine Transportation at USMMA

2

SUNY Maritime College
Throggs Neck, New York

$66,344 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,973 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Maritime College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Marine Transport Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Throggs Neck, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s marine transport degrees to 59 students 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 Marine Transportation at SUNY Maritime College

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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.