Anyone know of any good Marine Biology Colleges/ Universities?

Then go to business school. Seriously.

Money IS great, especially once you're not living at home and have real world bills to pay, like a mortgage, insurance, food, utilities... starting a business is a major step.

Of course on average college students change their major like 1.5 times before they finish school. I switched twice... started in Electrical Engineering, moved to Computer Science, finished in Fine Art....


I predict you'll end up in Sports Medicine or C&J.

-Doug

 

roger williams college, University of Rhode Island, Eckerd college, UNC Wilmington

 

what about a degree in aquaculture with a major in business, or what fields are there in marine biology.

 

Business is very easy to pick up compared to nearly any scientific concept. You can read a couple of the 100-level books and spend some time examining (pondering; don't be weird and hang out there all day lol) your nearest stores, and you'll get a sense of how it should be run. You do have to get rid of the customer mindset and think about it from the owner's point of view, though, which might be hard.

That'll work for the small business, but for a business you plan on growing quickly (5 stores in 8 years type expansion), or a business started with the intention of selling (i.e. electronics company started in order to be sold with an IP portfolio), you might want a business minor because of the familiarity it'll bring with the specific processes you can get out of it.

 

Make sure you check out the University of Delaware - there's a marine campus/research facility in Lewes,DE with a couple deepwater research vessels. Did my undergrad research on fundulus there!

 

This is a good thread. I was also looking to go into Marine Bio/Oceanography. Is there a market for it? I'm really interested in it! I'm also looking into architecture maybe though. :/ Idk which one. How much would the Marine Bio/Oceanography make? Just curious.

EDIT:
Marine Bio Salary - $36,000 - $80,000
Oceanographer Salary - $50,000 - $100,000

 

This might sound rude, but you'll make as much as your job pays. With any degree, there's a multitude of jobs suited for it, with a whole giant range of salaries.

Beyond that, there's a very large number of people that work in areas not covered by anything you learn during your schooling that pertains to your degree. Electrical engineers work as programmers; they definitely don't specialize in it straight out of college, but they branch out into doing mostly C work, then C++, and end up doing something like Java. Another example, someone might get a degree in computer science, and end up in marketing via a job designing websites. A marine biologist might end up being a photographer for NatGeo or Discovery Channel after spending lots of time in the field, or as a environmental studies teacher/professor, or as a lab researcher, or as a small business owner at a LFS.

In the end, it really depends on what you do, not what the label on the piece of paper is; the piece of paper just helps you get that first job.

 

No offense taken. My dad went to college in Computer science for web design. He then ended up changing his major to English literature and now I think it's something else. (I forget what exactly...) I understand that the degree is very general. So I was looking for a general salary, if that is possible. But that is, I think, beyond the point. The career is more about doing what you like, and not so much about the money.

I like photography and the whole aquarium/marine biology thing so that's why I was looking into this.

 

the point on the money is - don't pick a career based on cash. try to find something that you can get up and do every day. otherwise, you'll go nuts. even when you love what you do (i'm lucky enough to say that) there's still days that are hard to get thru.

 

My sister in law went to Florida tech for marine bio. Be prepared there isn't much you can do with a marine bio degree. Pretty much any success story of a marine bio major, I have heard of, has been as a marine bio teacher or professor. Teaching marine bio might be a pretty cool gig if you don't mind teaching. My sister in law worked as an educator at sea world and made less than I did working at a hardware store.

I'd go to Berkeley so I could work with Dr. Roy on stomatopods... but thats just me.