<p>Warblersrule:</p>
<p>First, thank you because you have started to help me with my son. We are all conflicted. My son definetly wants to be in a broader marine science program and not marine biology for his undergrad (good decision, I would say). </p>
<p>Eckerd is really more into Marine Biology. </p>
<p>Financially speaking, we can afford UAlabama and Jacksonville University (because of scholarships). JU has a Marine Science Research Institute (St. Johns River keeper) and UAlabama has Dauphin Island summer session. JU is a Marine Science program and UAlabama is a Geology/Marine Science program. I don’t know anything more about them. If anyone can throw more light, that would be great. We are going to explore UMiami (It is expensive though and a lot depends on what we get financially), we are also going to explore BU (again, we will need financial help there). Duke is also out there but that is a long shot (if at all). I know once my son is in a decent undergrad program, he can do well enough to join a great Masters program anywhere. For whatever reason, Univ of South Carolina has not clicked (and we have no clue why. Everything matched well and it almost looks like they missed looking at his credentials) </p>
<p>I know about Univ of Washington but they are not affordable unless you are from there. So, based on the fact that my son needs a broad-based Marine Science undergrad program, any suggestions would be appreciated. He is willing to work hard. All the schools people mentioned here are candidates for the Master program.</p>