2022 Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Animal Science is the 96th most popular major in the country with 8,086 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, animal science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,818 and had an average of $20,002 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 17 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great animal science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the animal science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,218 Average Net Price

$30,554 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school handed out 16 degrees to qualified bachelors’s animal science students in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Animal Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $17,218 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Animal Science students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend University of Maine.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Animal Science at UMaine

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science (Income $48-$75k)

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Billy Hathorn.

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