<p>I want to be a marine engineer but the problem is that not many major engineering schools have marine engineering program's many schools have aerospace, nuclear, and biomedical programs like Stanford, Princeton, Caltech, Mit, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and Northwestern but they don't have marine engineering programs so I would like to know why thank you</p>
<p>It’s very specialized and only a few offer it. If you love the sea and are determined to be Marine Engineer, look into the Webb Institute. Insanely hard to get in (only 78 students in the whole school) but all of them have full tuition scholarships and they graduate with a BS in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering.</p>
<p>They should do mechanical engineering with concentration courses in marine engineering</p>
<p>I think MIT (and probably other unis) offers Marine Engineering as an MS degree.
Stevens Institute and Texas A&M offer it as BS, and aside from that look at Maritime Academies.</p>
<p>I wish schools like Northwestern, Cornell, Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton offered but I wish Northwestern had a marine engineering program the most.</p>
<p>Oh and mit doesn’t have a marine engineering program it has a ocean engineering program which are two separate things</p>
<p>Link to MITs info on MS in Naval Construction & Marine Engineering
<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/2n/”>http://web.mit.edu/2n/</a></p>
<p>Why would you expect a school not near a coast to have Marine Engineering?</p>
<p>Anyway, if you are serious about it you will go where it is available, or you could do your BS in MechE and do an MS in Marine Eng.</p>
<p>Texas A&M in College Station offers an Ocean Engineering degree through the Civil Engineering department. Offshore companies recruit them pretty hard.</p>
<p>Texas A&M in Galveston has a very well known maritime program. I have a lot of friends who are making very good money who graduated with a bachelors from there.</p>
<p>Either of these programs are great because the Houston ship channel is right there, one of the biggest ports in the world. You can chose to go with the oil and gas industry or the shipping industry. Really good options.</p>
<p>Northwestern is by the Great Lakes, stanford is by the ocean, harvard is in boston one of the worlds leading sea faring port cities, columbia university I’s in New York City which is by the ocean</p>
<p>You might also consider this: marine engineering is overly specific and the roles they filled can often, if not usually, be equally filled by those in other engineering disciplines such as mechanical engineering. It doesn’t make economic sense for most schools to offer it. For example, as a mechanical engineer, I was offered a pair of jobs working on the design of aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines. I didn’t need a marine engineering degree to go do that. Except at schools that specialize in maritime education, it just doesn’t make sense to have a whole separated department and degree plan for marine engineering when it really isn’t necessary.</p>
<p>Also consider that it is a relatively small field with relatively few jobs compared to the larger, broader engineering disciplines, so it makes no financial sense for every major engineering program to offer the degree.</p>
<p>It may have been more common when there was more ship building in the US (e.g. Berkeley used to have a naval architecture major, but there used to be a big ship building industry in the area which is now gone). Today, only 8 schools have it as an ABET accredited naval architecture / marine engineering major:</p>
<p>Maine Maritime Academy
State University of New York Maritime College
United States Coast Guard Academy
United States Merchant Marine Academy
United States Naval Academy
University of Michigan
University of New Orleans
Webb Institute</p>
<p>However, some schools may have it as a subarea under mechanical engineering.</p>
<p>I agree with a few others here that there exists a lot of crossover between Mechanical/Aerospace engineering and Marine Engineering. </p>
<p>The types of jobs a Marine Engineer would get involved with could just as easily be done by a Mechanical or even Aerospace Engineer (fluid mechanics, aero/hydrodynamics, pressure vessels, etc). Something like Marine Engineering might be best for graduate school… where you might acquire a deeper understanding of water-material interactions especially with regards to seawater (corrosion), cavitation, etc. </p>
<p>Although quite honestly, even my undergrad Aerospace Engineering curriculum covered at moderate depth the effect of saltwater on materials, as well as hydrodynamics and hull design since sea/amphibious planes fall under the purview of aerospace engineering. </p>