2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Communication & Media Studies is the 74th most popular major in the country with 10,951 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maine, there were 44 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 44 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication and media studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent communication and media studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree media studies students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$8,753 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school handed out 27 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s media studies students in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine also made our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend University of Southern Maine is $8,753 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Media Studies students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at University of Southern Maine

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$13,989 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. UMaine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 13 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend UMaine is $13,989 for maine bachelor’s degree media studies students whose families make $0-$30k.

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%.

Full UMaine Communication & Media Studies Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $0-$30k)

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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