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2023 Best Value Marine Transportation Bachelor's Degree Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$7,116 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$75,829 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Marine Transportation Bachelor's Degree School for You

Marine Transportation is the #268 most popular major in California with 31 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Marine Transportation Bachelor's Degree Schools in California ranking.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Marine Transportation Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

Best Marine Transportation Bachelor's Degree School

Our 2023 rankings named California State University Maritime Academy the best value school in California for marine transportation students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the midsize city of Vallejo, Cal Maritime is a public school with a fairly small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Cal Maritime are $7,116 per year. Marine Transport majors at Cal Maritime take out an average of $26,050 in student loans while working on their Bachelor's Degree. The average monthly payment of a loan this size is about $432, assuming that the borrower is on a 10-year repayment plan.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Cal Maritime also did well on our Best Marine Transportation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Read full report on Marine Transportation at California State University Maritime Academy

Best Value Marine Transportation Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Marine Transportation Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Oregon 0
Alaska 1

Marine Transportation is one of 3 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Marine Transport

Related Major Annual Graduates
Ground Transportation 17,893
Air Transportation 9,984
Other Transportation & Materials Moving 4

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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