About This Data

Most Popular Schools for Oceanography, Chemical and Physical Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the scientific study of the chemical components, mechanisms, structure, and movement of ocean waters and their interaction with terrestrial and atmospheric phenomena. Includes instruction in material inputs and outputs, chemical and biochemical transformations in marine systems, equilibria studies, inorganic and organic ocean chemistry, oceanographic processes, sediment transport, zone processes, circulation, mixing, tidal movements, wave properties, and seawater properties.


Looking for online degree programs? Get the facts on accredited college degree programs online!

Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College 40 1% $30,360
2 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 40 0% $27,638
3 United States Coast Guard Academy 33 16% N/A
4 United States Naval Academy 31 3% N/A
5 University of California-San Diego 18 0% $32,838
6 University of Southern Mississippi 17 1% $24,048
7 University of Rhode Island 15 0% $30,351
8 University of North Carolina Wilmington 13 0% $24,982
9 Florida State University 13 0% $22,168
10 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 12 0% $23,977
11 University of California-Berkeley 11 0% $38,066
12 University of South Florida-Main Campus 9 0% $23,320
13 University of Connecticut 8 0% $32,404
14 University of Miami 8 0% $68,460
15 Texas A & M University-College Station 7 0% $29,506
16 University of California-Santa Cruz 7 0% $36,217
17 Old Dominion University 6 0% $26,456
18 Rider University 5 0% $62,140
19 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 5 0% $23,811
20 Humboldt State University 5 0% $24,811
21 Kutztown University of Pennsylvania 5 0% $27,890
22 Hawaii Pacific University 4 0% $44,414
23 Florida Institute of Technology 4 0% $59,530
24 Nova Southeastern University 4 0% $50,597
25 University of Hawaii at Manoa 4 0% $29,858
26 University of Maine 3 0% $25,088
27 Oregon State University 3 0% $26,892
28 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 3 0% $32,443
29 Naval Postgraduate School 2 0% N/A
30 The University of West Florida 2 0% $19,014
31 Monterey Peninsula College 1 0% $3,093
32 Millersville University of Pennsylvania 1 0% $30,538
33 University of Wisconsin-Madison 1 0% $26,025
34 University of Alaska Fairbanks 1 0% $20,281

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Oceanography, Chemical and Physical 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.