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Most Popular Marine Transportation Basic Certificate Trade Schools in California

2023 Most Popular Marine Transportation Basic Certificate Trade Schools in California

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Finding the Best Marine Transportation Basic Certificate School for You

With 40 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022, marine transportation is the #40 most popular major in California.

With all the trade school programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Most Popular Marine Transportation Basic Certificate Trade Schools in California ranking. This report analyzed 1 schools in California to see which ones were the most popular basic certificate programs for trade school students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Marine Transportation program at each school on the list.

The following school tops our list of the Most Popular Marine Transportation Basic Certificate Colleges.

#1

Orange Coast College

Costa Mesa, CA

Our 2023 rankings named Orange Coast College the most popular school in California for marine transportation students working on their basic certificate. Orange Coast College is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Costa Mesa.

Women make up 60% of the marine transport majors at the school.

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Best Marine Transportation Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Most Popular Marine Transportation Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 242
Oregon 1
Alaska 2

One of 3 majors within the trade school area of study, marine transportation has other similar majors worth exploring.

Marine Transport Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Diver, Professional & Instructor 876
Marine Science/Merchant Marine Officer 583
Other Marine Transportation 34

Related Major Annual Graduates
Ground Transportation 21,480
Air Transportation 10,326
Other Transportation & Materials Moving 7

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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