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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Maine (With Aid)

1 Ranked Colleges
58 Degrees Awarded
$34,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

General Education is the 28th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maine, there were 182 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general education programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Maine (With Aid)

#1

University of New England

Biddeford, Maine
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New England. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid. University of New England is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Biddeford, Maine. It awarded 8 bachelors’s general education degrees in 2019-2020.

UNE also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $34,118 for maine bachelor’s degree general education students with aid per year to attend UNE.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Education at University of New England

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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