Marine Biology at Unity College

If you are interested in studying marine biology, you may want to check out the program at Unity College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Unity is located in New Gloucester, Maine and has a total student population of 1,429.

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

Unity Marine Biology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Oceanography
• Master’s Degree in Biological Oceanography

Online Classes Are Available at Unity

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Unity offers distance education options for biological oceanography at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Unity Marine Biology Rankings

The biological oceanography major at Unity is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Marine Biology. 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.

Biological Oceanography Student Demographics at Unity

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the biological oceanography majors at Unity College.

Unity Marine Biology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 11% of biological oceanography bachelor's degrees went to men and 89% went to women.

About 77% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in biological oceanography at Unity 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 Unity College with a bachelor's in biological oceanography.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	27
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Unity Marine Biology Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 17% of biological oceanography master's degrees went to men and 83% went to women.

Of the students who received a biological oceanography master's degree from Unity, 67% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Unity College with a master's in biological oceanography.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	28
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

Related Majors

• Conservation Biology

Careers That Biological Oceanography Grads May Go Into

A degree in biological oceanography 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 Unity College.

Occupation	Jobs in ME	Average Salary in ME
Natural Sciences Managers	300	$135,840
Biological Science Professors	240	$74,460

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 David Dixon under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.