Summary Trends in Marine Science Degree Completions
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Course
SCIENCE
Institution
SCIENCE
A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and
operational evaluation of systems to monitor, control, manipulate and operate within coastal or ocean environments, such
as underwater platforms, flood control systems, dikes, hydroe...
Trends in Marine Science Degree
Completions
Matt Lettrich
September 2014
, To identify trends in degree completions in
Purpose marine science and related disciplines using the
Department of Education’s IPEDS* data.
*Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
, Process
• Get data from IPEDS data warehouse
• Clean data using R
• Identify marine‐related disciplines
• Aggregate and split data by:
– Discipline
– Degree Level
– Gender
– Race
, “Core” Marine Disciplines
CIP Title (CIP‐6 Code)
Ocean Engineering (14.2401)
Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography (26.1302)
Marine Sciences (30.3201)
Oceanography, Chemical and Physical (40.0607)
“Related” Marine Disciplines
CIP Title (CIP‐6 Code)
Aquaculture (01.0303)
Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management (03.0301)
Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management (03.0601)
Water, Wetlands, and Marine Resources Management (03.0205)
Ecology (26.1301)
Aquatic Biology/Limnology (26.1304)
Hydrology and Water Resources Science (40.0605)
Geophysics and Seismology (40.0603)
Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer (49.0309)
Operational Oceanography (29.0306)
Maritime Studies (30.2901)
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Other (40.0699)
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