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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Computer Science is the 19th most popular major in the country with 53,722 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, computer science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,561 and had an average of $23,565 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 126 computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $88,700 and $23,922 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 110 computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in computer science. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent computer science 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 computer science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value CompSci 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 compsci students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computer Science (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

Bowdoin College

Brunswick, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$5,626 Average Net Price

$78,971 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bowdoin College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. Brunswick, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s compsci degrees to 25 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Bowdoin, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $5,626 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree CompSci students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Bowdoin College.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%.

Read more about Computer Science at Bowdoin

#2

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#3 in overall quality

$8,753 Average Net Price

$65,477 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. This medium-sized school is located in Portland, Maine, and it awarded 24 bachelors’s compsci degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Southern Maine is $8,753 for maine bachelor’s degree compsci students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full University of Southern Maine Computer Science Report

#3

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$13,989 Average Net Price

$55,512 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 #3 for the Best Value CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k. University of Maine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $13,989 for maine bachelor’s degree compsci students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend UMaine.

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 University of Maine Computer Science Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computer Science (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computer Science (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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