Marine Engineering at Maine Maritime Academy

If you plan to study marine engineering, take a look at what Maine Maritime Academy has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Maine Maritime is located in Castine, Maine and has a total student population of 941. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 82 students received a bachelor's degree in marine engineering from Maine Maritime.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Marine Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Maine Maritime Marine Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marine Engineering

Maine Maritime Marine Engineering Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks marine engineering programs across the country. The following shows how Maine Maritime performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The marine engineering major at Maine Maritime is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Marine Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
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Most Popular Marine Engineering Schools	1
Most Popular Marine Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1
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Best Value Marine Engineering Schools	2
Most Focused Marine Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	2
Most Focused Marine Engineering Schools	2
Best Marine Engineering Schools	2
Best Value Marine Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	2
Best Marine Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3

How Much Do Marine Engineering Graduates from Maine Maritime Make?

The median salary of marine engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at Maine Maritime is $94,796. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 33% higher than the national average of $71,291 for all marine engineering bachelor's degree recipients.

Marine Engineering Student Demographics at Maine Maritime

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the marine engineering majors at Maine Maritime Academy.

Maine Maritime Marine Engineering Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 82 marine engineering majors earned their bachelor's degree from Maine Maritime. Of these graduates, 96% were men and 4% were women.

About 90% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in marine engineering at Maine Maritime are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Maine Maritime Academy with a bachelor's in marine engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	74
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Maine Maritime also has a doctoral program available in marine engineering. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Systems Engineering

Careers That Marine Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in marine engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for ME, the home state for Maine Maritime Academy.

Occupation	Jobs in ME	Average Salary in ME
Architectural and Engineering Managers	760	$124,230
Engineering Professors	150	$87,920

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Billy Hathorn under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.