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Most Popular Schools for Ocean Engineering Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of systems to monitor, control, manipulate and operate within coastal or ocean environments, such as underwater platforms, flood control systems, dikes, hydroelectric power systems, tide and current control and warning systems, and communications equipment; the planning and design of total systems for working and functioning in water or underwater environments; and the analysis of related engineering problems such as the action of water properties and behavior on physical systems and people, tidal forces, current movements, and wave motion.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Texas A & M University-College Station 77 0% $29,506
2 United States Naval Academy 53 5% N/A
3 Florida Atlantic University 45 1% $24,235
4 University of Rhode Island 43 1% $30,351
5 Florida Institute of Technology 23 1% $59,530
6 University of New Orleans 15 1% $25,223
7 Stevens Institute of Technology 11 0% $69,292
8 University of New Hampshire-Main Campus 7 0% $33,750
9 University of Florida 4 0% $21,211
10 University of Hawaii at Manoa 4 0% $29,858
11 Northwestern Michigan College 4 1% $18,903
12 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College 1 0% $30,360
13 University of Delaware 1 0% $29,342
14 University of Miami 1 0% $68,460

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Ocean Engineering program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.