2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Marine Transportation in the Southeast 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 “Most Well Attended Marine Transport Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” 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 Southeast region, there were 263 marine transportation graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,611 and $6,577 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 marine transportation graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Marine Transport Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in marine transportation. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in marine transportation.

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 “Most Well Attended Marine Transport Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate”.

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Most Well Attended Marine Transport Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree marine transport students.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Marine Transportation in the Southeast Region

1

The College of the Florida Keys
Key West, Florida

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Marine Transport Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, The College of the Florida Keys landed the #1 spot on the list. CFK is a public institution located in Key West, Florida. The school has a small population, and it awarded 9 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Marine Transportation at CFK

2

West Kentucky Community and Technical College
Paducah, Kentucky

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Marine Transport Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, West Kentucky Community and Technical College landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Paducah, Kentucky, and it awarded 5 associates’s marine transport degrees in 2020-2021.

Full West Kentucky Community and Technical College Marine Transportation Report

• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Marine Transportation

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.