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I'm a senior about ready to choose a college. I'm really interested in doing physical oceanography; I love to program, doing math, and physics and I think I would really enjoy modeling. I'm also interested in field work, data collection, and robotics.
I'm a little stuck as to whether I should do Physics or Ocean Engineering as my undergraduate major. I'll quite likely do at least a masters related to oceanography too. I know I want to do some real oceanography work, especially research with professors, and my three options (UNH, URI, and UmassD) all have great ocean research opportunities (URI possibly being the best with their own RV but it's hard to tell without being involved with the institutions).
UNH and URI seem to have great Ocean Engineering programs, and URI also has a Physics and Physical Oceanography major which seems really niche without a lot of information at least online. UmassD doesn't actually have any oceanography related major but they have what seems to be a really good and interesting Computational Physics degree and the professors say a lot of their students do research with their marine science graduate school.
Overall I'm looking for a well-rounded education where I can do relevant work and be exposed to different things I might be interested in. I would love to hear the perspectives of professionals or graduate students!
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