Some of the answer is dependent on what you and your daughter want to get out of the college degree. If the main priority is the experience for 4 years, then that’s very subjective. If she’s looking at increased prestige as a way to translate that degree into increased earnings, my guess is that this is not likely in that field.
We have a world class marine research facility locally and I know several of the lead scientists there in various fields. There is no polite way to describe this, so I’ll be blunt - the pay stinks. Marine biology draws a much larger number of students and even volunteers than there are jobs available so supply vastly outpaces demand and there isn’t much money for funding and supporting the research. So you end up with scientists with PhDs working for peanuts.
If your daughter truly wants to be in this field, she should prepare for a life of simple living, which is fine if you know of that tradeoff in advance. There is no way in heck I’d take on college debt to get a degree in a field that is so competitive and pays so little, no matter how prestigious the degree was. YMMV.