Marine Transportation
1,041 students earn a marine transportation credential each year across 23 US colleges. Earnings below are the median for each school's graduates one and five years after finishing; debt is the median federal loan balance at completion.
- Typical earnings, 1 year out
- $84,187
- Typical earnings, 5 years out
- $109,470
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Bachelor's programs — 7 colleges
CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt
1United States Merchant Marine AcademyKings Point, New York105$69,8471 year out$101,017—2SUNY Maritime CollegeThroggs Neck, New York81$79,7971 year out$101,578$25,0003Texas A&M University-College StationCollege Station, Texas55$87,4441 year out$109,470$25,0004Cal Poly Maritime AcademyVallejo, California53$87,4641 year out$116,871$26,9455Northwestern Michigan CollegeTraverse City, Michigan48$87,2811 year out$133,180$26,5426Massachusetts Maritime AcademyBuzzards Bay, Massachusetts47$84,1871 year out$110,804$24,6867Maine Maritime AcademyCastine, Maine32$82,7251 year out$106,633$27,000
Associate programs — 10 colleges
CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt
1San Jacinto Community CollegePasadena, Texas13—1 year out——2The Landing SchoolArundel, Maine10—1 year out——3SUNY Maritime CollegeThroggs Neck, New York9—1 year out——4West Kentucky Community and Technical CollegePaducah, Kentucky4—1 year out——5Orange Coast CollegeCosta Mesa, California3—1 year out——6Maine Maritime AcademyCastine, Maine3—1 year out——7Clatsop Community CollegeAstoria, Oregon3—1 year out——8Santa Barbara City CollegeSanta Barbara, California2—1 year out——9The College of the Florida KeysKey West, Florida2—1 year out——10University of Alaska SoutheastJuneau, Alaska1—1 year out——
Certificate programs — 14 colleges
CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt
1Divers Institute of TechnologySeattle, Washington264$38,6991 year out$55,378$9,5002Ocean CorporationHouston, Texas125$30,9921 year out$48,240$9,5003Commercial Divers InternationalGoodyear, Arizona81—1 year out——4Seattle Central CollegeSeattle, Washington20—1 year out——5San Jacinto Community CollegePasadena, Texas14—1 year out——6University of Alaska SoutheastJuneau, Alaska13—1 year out——7Northshore Technical Community CollegeLacombe, Louisiana10—1 year out——8Tennessee College of Applied Technology-HohenwaldHohenwald, Tennessee10—1 year out——9West Kentucky Community and Technical CollegePaducah, Kentucky9—1 year out——10Orange Coast CollegeCosta Mesa, California7—1 year out——11The College of the Florida KeysKey West, Florida5—1 year out——12South Louisiana Community CollegeLafayette, Louisiana5—1 year out——13Santa Barbara City CollegeSanta Barbara, California4—1 year out——14Lamar State College-OrangeOrange, Texas3—1 year out——
US Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data (4-digit CIP). Graduates are conferrals in the most recent IPEDS year; earnings cover federally-aided completers who are working and not enrolled; medians for small programs are privacy-suppressed (—).