by Linda Ann Nickerson

Created on: April 16, 2007   Last Updated: May 02, 2007

The top two schools are located on opposite ends of the country:

The Scripps Institutions of Oceanography is a graduate school of the University of California at San Diego. This Pacific Coast school has led oceanographic research for more than 100 years.

On the Atlantic Coast, the Woods Hole Oceanographic was founded in 1930. Today, the Cape Cod school boasts three large ocean-going research vessels.

The Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) is a group of 31 American educational institutions that join forces to study the world's oceans. All of these schools offer top-notch programs. Member organizations include:

College of William and Mary, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Columbia University, Lamond-Doherty Earth Observatory
Florida State University
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
Mississippi State University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Old Dominion University
Oregon State University
Pennsylvania State University
Rutgers University
Stanford University
Texas A&M University
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
University of California, Santa Cruz
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
University of Delaware
University of Florida
University of Hawaii
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
University of New Hampshire
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
University of Rhode Island
University of South Florida
University of Southern California
University of Southern Mississippi
University of Texas, Austin
University of Washington
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Sources:
http://sio.ucsd.edu/About/
http:// www.joiscience.org/
http://www.whoi.edu/home/index_ab out.html

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