Oceanography Chemical and Physical

A program that focuses on the scientific study of the chemical components, mechanisms, structure, and movement of ocean waters and their interaction with terrestrial and atmospheric phenomena. Includes instruction in material inputs and outputs, chemical and biochemical transformations in marine systems, equilibria studies, inorganic and organic ocean chemistry, oceanographic processes, sediment transport, zone processes, circulation, mixing, tidal movements, wave properties, and seawater properties.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 37 institutions across the United States, with a total of 1557 degrees awarded annually.

Associate Degrees

degrees awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

234

degrees awarded

Master's Degrees

175

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

109

degrees awarded

Other Awards

1,038

awards given

Top Schools for Oceanography Chemical and Physical

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA	177
2	United States Naval Academy Annapolis, MD	132
3	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	132
4	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA	111
5	Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX	81
6	University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI	81
7	United States Coast Guard Academy New London, CT	75
8	University of North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington, NC	72
9	North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh, NC	63
10	University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, MS	60
11	University of Miami Coral Gables, FL	57
12	Florida State University Tallahassee, FL	51
13	University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	36
14	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	36
15	University of South Florida Tampa, FL	33
16	California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt Arcata, CA	33
17	Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne, FL	33
18	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	30
19	University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI	27
20	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	27
21	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	24
22	Hawaii Pacific University Honolulu, HI	24
23	Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Kutztown, PA	24
24	Rider University Lawrenceville, NJ	21
25	Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA	21
26	University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA	18
27	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	15
28	University of New Hampshire-Main Campus Durham, NH	12
29	University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks, AK	9
30	Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale, FL	9
31	Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA	9
32	University of Maine Orono, ME	6
33	Coastal Carolina University Conway, SC	6
34	California State University Maritime Academy Vallejo, CA	3
35	City College of San Francisco San Francisco, CA	3
36	University of Delaware Newark, DE	3
37	Maine Maritime Academy Castine, ME	3