<p>Does anyone know the strongest schools for Ocean Engineering/Naval Architecture?</p>
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<p>It is MIT. But their program is now placed within Mechanical Engineering Department.</p>
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<p>Also look for strong civil programs. A lot of schools have ocean engineering within their civil engineering departments.</p>
<p>I know Berkeley used to have a whole interdisciplinary program in ocean engineering. But it is now no longer offered. But you can still study it under Berkeley's ME graduate program with an emphasis on ocean engineering. </p>
<p>So basically look for schools with strong civil or ME departments and you should find some emphasis on ocean engineering.</p>
<p>EDIT: According to wikipedia, these are the leading institutions-</p>
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* Department of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture, IIT Kharagpur, India
* Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
* Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, US Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT
* Department of Maritime Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA
* Center for Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
* Department of Ocean Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
* Department of Ocean Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
* Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA
* Department of Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
* Department of Maritime Transport and Engineering, Australian Maritime College, Tasmania, Australia
* Department of Ocean Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, USA
* Department of Ocean Engineering, University Of Rhode Island, South Kingston, Rhode Island, USA
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<p>I was just told on another post that the USNA and Michigan were first and second respectively.</p>
<p>Also, do you think it is easier getting accepted to an institution such as Michigan by selecting such a specific major like OE?</p>
<p>Not at Michigan you do not choose your specfic engineering major till after your first year.</p>
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<p>when I asked this same question last year, almost everyone unanimously replied:</p>
<p>"Dont do NA/OE unless you want to live in a box your whole life"</p>
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<p>funny isnt it.....</p>
<p>but yepp, Michigan is a good school, VT has an interesting program, and I liked Florida Techs program as well......MIT of course is going to be good as welll</p>
<p>The Webb Institute gives free tuition to all accepted, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb_Institute%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb_Institute</a></p>
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<p>I'm familiar with Webb, I live pretty close to it actually. I don't think I'd like such a small class size though....70 undergrads per class at most. </p>
<p>Drumnrun4luv, I've actually heard the opposite from actual OE's, claiming the potential for renewable resources from the ocean. On the other hand, an unemployed OE lives next door to me.</p>
<p>You may want to look up Department of Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University. It is fairly easy to get in and the department have many millions of dollars of federal sponsered research to fund student stipend. Graduate employment don't seems to be a problem.
<a href="http://www.oe.fau.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.oe.fau.edu/</a>
<a href="http://www.oe.fau.edu/undergrad/ug.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.oe.fau.edu/undergrad/ug.html</a></p>
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<p>Not to mention that FAU was the first university in the nation to offer an undergraduate degree in ocean engineering...</p>
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<p>I never thought of FAU as a strong engineering school.</p>
<p>FAU is a young school. Ocean Engineering is one of its stronger department. Place like FAU has small classes at least for its engineering school and is fairly easy to get in. Outside ocean engineering, it did graduated someone like Mark Dean, co-inventor of IBM PC, Philip Zimmermann, creator of PGP, world's leading E-mail Encryption software and Susan Skemp, first woman president of a major engineering society (ASME International) in U.S. and many more. It may not be a strong engineering school, but it nevertheless provide ample opportunities for many students to succeed. It is really up to individual student.</p>
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<p>Webb specialzes in Naval Architecture and Marine engineering(systems that make ships go). It does not have ocean engineering, if you mean the design of immovable stuctures that are affected by hydro such as docks, dams, energy systems, oil platforms sea walls etc. </p>
<p>Webb has just 94 undergrads.</p>
<p>Virginia Tech has the wisdom to put the aero and ocean engineering departments together. Both disciplines require the cross specialization between Mech, Electric, and systems. Aero and Ocean being stashed in Mech really shortchanges the programs.</p>
<p>A surprising number of schools say they have Aero or ocean/naval, but actually have have grad programs. Undergrad is just a couple of specialized classes in senior year. </p>
<p>Check out Daniel Webster for Aero and Webb or Memorial University in Newfoundland for Ocean/Naval.</p>
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