2025 Best Ocean Engineering Master's Degree Schools
3Colleges in the United States
74Master's Degrees
Ocean Engineeringmaster's programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #256 out of the 343 majors we look at each year. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Ocean Engineering Master's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 74 master's degrees in ocean engineering to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Ocean Engineering School for Your Master's Degree
The oe master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality oe program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on ocean engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of ocean engineering students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt ocean engineering students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized ocean engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for ocean engineering students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Ocean Engineering Master's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
The oe master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality oe program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
