<p>I'm looking at UCSB and University of Miami, I've heard they have magnificent programs.
Any others?</p>
<p>Well Duke has a marine lab on the NC coast; might be a pretty marine bio program I imagine.
[Duke</a> University Marine Lab — Duke Marine Lab](<a href=“http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/marinelab]Duke”>Duke University Marine Lab | Nicholas School of the Environment)</p>
<p>try looking at UCSD and see if they have any relationships with sea world. Plus, they’re also beach side so they probably have access to numerous marine labs.</p>
<p>This has been answered many times before.</p>
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<p>You don’t have to major in marine biology to be a marine biologist, I’ve met some marine biologists, one of them majored in biology at Carleton and said it was a great choice and really helped him in his career</p>
<p>noobcake is correct. even if you don’t major in marine biology at duke, the lab is an incredible opportunity for undergraduates to gain experience. and plus, that experience will help for grad schools :)</p>
<p>University of Hawaii at Manoa</p>
<p>Loyola New Orleans has a wonderful biology program, and there is a facility called LUMCON south of here where they offer courses in the summer. My son is in a program at Loyola this summer that is administered by a biology professor who is a fish guy. He just got back from taking his wetlands class to Belize for two weeks. He takes my son’s group out on field trips every Friday. They went trawling out on a research vessel out of LUMCON. Definitely check out this school.</p>
<p>There are several undergraduate summer marine biology programs;</p>
<p>Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
U of Washington/Friday Harbor
U of Rhode Island
Dauphin Island, Alabama Consortium</p>
<p>And a lot of places have an undergraduate program in Marine Biology/Marine Science. But as often reiterated by Warblersrule, you really can’t get into the professional field with only a Bachelor’s degree. And what matters is your graduate training, not your undergrad major. That being said, here are some undergraduate programs at schools that have strong graduate departments;</p>
<p>U of Washington
U of Rhode Island
U of South Carolina
Duke University
U of Miami (FL)
U of New Hampshire (Zoology)
Oregon State University</p>
<p>Other Undergraduate programs
U of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
College of Charleston (SC)
Old Dominion University (VA)
Texas A&M University-Galveston
California State University-Monterey Bay
U of North Carolina-Wilmington</p>
<p>programs in marine biology that had 5 or more graduates last year</p>
<p>number of graduates, SAT 25th (overall school), SAT 75th, school</p>
<p>5 1320 1540 Brown University
32 1190 1380 University of Miami
15 1170 1370 Boston University
22 1160 1410 University of California-Los Angeles
13 1110 1290 University of Connecticut
8 1100 1280 University of San Diego
25 1090 1280 College of Charleston
14 1090 1270 Stony Brook University
14 1080 1280 University of South Carolina-Columbia
8 1070 1300 Rutgers University-New Brunswick
10 1070 1270 Auburn University Main Campus
52 1070 1240 University of North Carolina-Wilmington
27 1040 1250 Florida Institute of Technology
90 1020 1250 University of California-Santa Cruz
43 1020 1225 Eckerd College
30 1020 1190 Roger Williams University
10 1000 1230 Western Washington University
23 1000 1170 The University of Tampa
16 990 1190 The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
6 990 1190 University of Hawaii at Manoa
5 980 1210 The University of Alabama
90 950 1190 Texas A & M University at Galveston
28 950 1180 The University of West Florida
21 950 1160 University of New England
33 950 1140 University of Rhode Island
57 950 1120 Coastal Carolina University
7 940 1140 University of Southern Mississippi
8 937 1182 Hampton University
5 910 1120 Jacksonville University
28 890 1130 California State University-Long Beach
32 850 1120 Hawaii Pacific University
17 850 1060 University of Hawaii at Hilo
9 830 1120 University of Maine at Machias
6 660 880 University of the Virgin Islands</p>
<p>It should be noted that the above list should come with the caveat that it counts only freestanding marine biology programs.</p>
<p>Universities like Duke and Stanford that offer marine biology concentrations within the biology major are not counted, although they have superior offerings to nearly all of those colleges and certainly have more than 5 students in those tracks. It seems that marine science programs like those at Berkeley and UNC are also missing.</p>
<p>Humboldt State has majors in both marine biology and oceanography. The marine lab work is done at the Telonicher Marine Laboratory in Trinidad and the RV Coral Sea, the marine research vessel, is widely used by undergrads. [Department</a> of Biological Sciences - Facilities](<a href=“http://www.humboldt.edu/~biosci/facilities.html]Department”>http://www.humboldt.edu/~biosci/facilities.html)</p>
<p>Are a few of the schools on Collegehelp’s list part of a consortium? For example, most of the marine biology courses at U of Alabama-Birmingham are taught at the Dauphin Island sea lab, a facility shared by many other Gulf coast universities. By the way, I’m guessing that it is UAB that should be on that list. I don’t believe that there’s a marine biology/marine science program at U of Alabama-Tuscaloosa. Incidentally, I think that the Boston University program is also part of a consortium. And at Hampton University, students must complete their studies at another campus, either William & Mary or Old Dominion University, if I am not mistaken.</p>
<p>One of the above lists jogged my memory. A good friend is going to College of Charleston for marine bio. He also applied to UNC Wilmington, Coastal Carolina, and some others. University of West Florida is also another good choice. In the beautiful town of Pensacola. I went to UMiami for Marine Bio, but almost went to UWF. It was a senior college back then, so I ruled it out. USC Trojans and Woods Hole were my dream places. One of my professors came from Cornell. Scripps is in La Jolla, which is near San Diego, so you may try schools in that area. A friend transferred to SDSU, for financial reasons, so may want to try that if UCSD is not feasible. </p>
<p>I did actually have one friend from UMiami that became a marine biologist. She worked at RSMAS and did some grad work there. She also grad work in Ireland, of all places, and obtained a PHD. She wound up working for the dept of fisheries in DC, then moved down to St. Pete/Tampa area office. She is now retired, at the ripe old age of 48, and raising her children. </p>
<p>University of Southern Mississippi has a Gulf Coast Research Lab, although don’t know the state of it since Katrina. Texas AM Galveston is back up and running since Ike, just found out from a friend there. The Dauphin Island facility is affiliated with some Alabama school, maybe U of South Alabama in Mobile, or maybe even Spring Hill. I think it has survived the hurricanes. Friend at Charleston did look at a lot of colleges in the Carolinas. </p>
<p>Miami is really, in my opinion, the best school, but it has a very high price tag nowadays. Lucky for me, I went there before the football team got good and the price quadrupled.</p>
I’m looking at Marine Science, too. A professor of paleo oceanography from Stony Brook University is helping me find schools. I trust his judgement: he is relatively unbiased and very knowledgable.
He felt the top schools in marine science were: University of Miami, UC San Diego, and Stony Brook (relatively unbiased, but it’s a great school with gorgeous labs)
He also recommended University of South Carolina, Rutgers, University of Washington, and Florida State
I’ve heard good things about Duke but he thought it was too expensive for an undergrad program since marine scientists HAVE to go to graduate school. Good luck! I hope that helps!
OLD thread that got renewed… OP would have graduated by now!
Having visited UCSD campus on an official visit, I can confidently say that it is a top college if you want to major in anything related to ocean biology and if you want to surf or scuba dive while studying. I know their engineering and Int’l Relations program/Business are pretty good also. But if I were a surfer/scuba diver, I would definitely attend UCSD.