Fifty-five percent of COA graduates enter graduate or professional school within five years of graduating. The following is a list of some COA graduates who focused in Marine Studies, along with their graduate degrees and current careers.

• Keri Barber (2000) is a National Marine Fisheries Service observer in Alaska.

• Nicole Cabana (1999) has researched the controversies of killing Harp Seals for their fur; she is currently sponsored by NOAA Corps to pursue a Master's degree in Geographic Information System (GIS) at University of Rhode Island.

• Libby Dean (1989) works for Quebec Labrador Foundation researching waste water based on her thesis work at Dalhousie University in Resource and Environmental Studies.

• Allison Fundis (2003) teaches environmental science to high school students at the University School in Nashville, Tennessee.

• Bethany Holm (2003) is a technician for Allied Whale, working on the Antarctic Humpback Whale Catalog and doing stable-isotope analyses of baleen whales.

• Justin Huston (1999) is the coastal zone coordinator in Nova Scotia fisheries based in Canada.

• Scott Kraus (1977) created the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog and is now director of research for the New England Aquarium where he focuses on endangered species conservation.

• Kerri Kidder (2001) is studying estuarine biology at the University of Oregon's Oregon Institute of Marine Biology.

• Yasmin Lucero (1999) is in the Ph.D. program at University of California, Santa Cruz, studying in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

• Christie Mahaffey (2006) is enrolled in an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Ocean Engineering at the University of Maine.

• Max Overstrom-Coleman (2003) is enrolled in a Master's program at California State University's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

• Jen Rock (1993) received a Watson fellowship and subsequently earned a Ph.D. in Zoology and Physiology from the University of Otago in New Zealand. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wales.

• Greg Stone (1982), vice president for global marine programs at The New England Aquarium, has pioneered research on marine mammals in the Antarctic, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans. He has been awarded a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation and the U.S. Navy and National Science Foundation Antarctic Service Medal.