2022 Best Value Journalism 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 Journalism Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Journalism is the 58th most popular major in the country with 12,336 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maine, there were 24 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Journalism Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general journalism. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general journalism programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general journalism program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Journalism Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$13,989 Average Net Price

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 Journalism Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k. University of Maine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 21 bachelors’s journalism degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine also made our “Best General Journalism Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maine is $13,989 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Journalism 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%.

Full UMaine General Journalism Report

#2

Husson University

Bangor, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$13,870 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Husson University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Journalism Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. Husson is located in Bangor, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s journalism degrees to qualified students.

Husson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Journalism Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend Husson is $13,870 for maine bachelor’s degree journalism students whose families make $0-$30k.

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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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