Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering at United States Coast Guard Academy

If you plan to study naval architecture & marine engineering, take a look at what United States Coast Guard Academy has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

USCGA is located in New London, Connecticut and approximately 1,056 students attend the school each year.

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

USCGA Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Naval Architecture

USCGA Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Rankings

The naval architecture major at USCGA is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Naval Architecture & 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.

Naval Architecture Student Demographics at USCGA

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the naval architecture majors at United States Coast Guard Academy.

USCGA Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 73% of naval architecture bachelor's degrees went to men and 27% went to women. The typical naval architecture bachelor's degree program is made up of only 17% women. So female students are more repesented at USCGA since its program graduates 9% more women than average.

About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in naval architecture at USCGA are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 16% more racial-ethnic minorities in its naval architecture bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from United States Coast Guard Academy with a bachelor's in naval architecture.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	17
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Careers That Naval Architecture Grads May Go Into

A degree in naval architecture can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CT, the home state for United States Coast Guard Academy.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Architectural and Engineering Managers	3,570	$143,920
Engineering Professors	420	$100,280

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 USCG Public Affairs photograph of United States Coast Guard under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.