2022 Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,815 people earned their degree in food science, making the major the 283rd most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 19 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,229 and $177,250 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality food science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the food science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Food Sciences Schools for a Doctorate 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 Food Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine doctor’s degree food sciences students whose families make $48-$75k.

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

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k list. UMaine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 3 doctorate’s food sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine also took the #1 spot in our “Best Food Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UMaine are $28,352.

Read full report on Food Science at University of Maine

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

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Muhammad Irshad Ansari.

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