{"id":472,"date":"2023-12-12T15:10:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce-draft\/?page_id=472"},"modified":"2025-06-26T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:57:25","slug":"oce-marine-biology-double-major","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/academics\/oce-marine-biology-double-major\/","title":{"rendered":"OCE\/Marine Biology Double Major"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ocean Engineering\/Marine Biology Double Major<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"type-intro fullwidth\">If you are an ocean engineering major interested in deepening your knowledge of marine biology, URI offers a unique opportunity to combine your <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/academics\/ocean-engineering-b-s\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"24\">B.S. in Ocean Engineering<\/a> with a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/bio\/academics\/bachelor-of-science-in-marine-biology\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/bio\/academics\/bachelor-of-science-in-marine-biology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">B.S. in Marine Biology<\/a>, and complete both majors in five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This program provides the opportunity to explore these two exciting fields in a challenging five-year program that will most likely include some summer study. If you are interested, please work closely with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/bio\/academics\/bachelor-of-science-in-marine-biology\/faculty\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/bio\/academics\/bachelor-of-science-in-marine-biology\/faculty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coordinator of the Marine Biology Program<\/a> and your advisor in Ocean Engineering to determine how to arrange your schedule to accommodate the requirements for both majors. <\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  block-level prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2174\/5-Year-BS-Marine-Biology-BS-Ocean-Engineering-2023_JW.pdf\" title=\"\">curriculum sheet (PDF)<\/a>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ABET Accreditation<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"364\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2174\/ABET-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2174\/ABET-logo.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2174\/ABET-logo-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Ocean Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abet.org\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.abet.org\">ABET<\/a>, under the commission\u2019s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Ocean Engineering, and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.<br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abet.org\/accreditation\/accreditation-criteria\/\">Find out why ABET accreditation matters.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean Engineering\/Marine Biology Double Major If you are an ocean engineering major interested in deepening your knowledge of marine biology, URI offers a unique opportunity to combine your B.S. in Ocean Engineering with a B.S. in Marine Biology, and complete both majors in five years. This program provides the opportunity to explore these two exciting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-472","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78310,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472\/revisions\/78310"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/oce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}