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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 68,079 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, communication and media studies is the 9th most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, communication and media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,728 and had an average of $24,931 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 117 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,275 and $28,115 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 110 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Communications 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 communications 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

$32,658 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k. University of Southern Maine is located in Portland, Maine and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 66 bachelors’s communications degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our maine bachelor’s degree communications students whose families make $0-$30k list, University of Southern Maine has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $8,753 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Communications students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Southern Maine.

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#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$13,989 Average Net Price

$34,348 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school handed out 36 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s communications students in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Maine is $13,989 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Communications students whose families make $0-$30k.

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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