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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business Economics (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

2 Ranked Colleges
31 Degrees Awarded
Best Value Business Economics 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 was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Business Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Business Economics is the 121st most popular major in the country with 6,169 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maine, there were 31 business economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 business economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Business Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in business economics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great business economics programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the business economics program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business Economics (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 Business Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s business economics students in 2019-2020.

UMaine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Business Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $17,218 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Business Economics students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend University of Maine.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Business Economics at UMaine

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Business Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine at Farmington landed the #2 spot on the list. UMaine Farmington is a small school located in Farmington, Maine that handed out 21 bachelors’s business economics degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine Farmington also took the #2 spot in our “Best Business Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $13,902 for maine bachelor’s degree business economics students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend University of Maine at Farmington.

Full University of Maine at Farmington Business Economics Report

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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