2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in Maine (With Aid)

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Hospitality Management is the 61st most popular major in the country with 17,830 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, hospitality management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,271 and had an average of $21,829 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 53 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,600 and $16,997 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,425 and $17,736 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in hospitality management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great hospitality management 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 hospitality management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in Maine (With Aid)

#1

Southern Maine Community College

South Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$10,647 Average Net Price

$35,954 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Maine Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid. SMCC is a medium-sized school located in South Portland, Maine that handed out 5 associates’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SMCC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $10,647 for Maine Associate Degree Hospitality students with aid per year to attend SMCC.

Full SMCC Hospitality Management Report

#2

York County Community College

Wells, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$8,359 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend York County Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid. Located in Wells, Maine, this small public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified associates’s hospitality students in 2019-2020.

York County Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Hospitality Management Associate Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $8,359 for Maine Associate Degree Hospitality students with aid per year to attend York County Community College.

Full York County Community College Hospitality Management Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management (With Aid)

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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