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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

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3 Degrees Awarded
Best Value Botany Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Botany Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 730 people earned their degree in botany/plant biology, making the major the 257th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, botany/plant biology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $18,133 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 5 botany/plant biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 botany/plant biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality botany/plant biology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the botany/plant biology 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 Botany 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 Botany Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Botany Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k. University of Maine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 3 bachelors’s botany degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Botany/Plant Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maine is $17,218 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Botany students whose families make $48-$75k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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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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