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2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Education is the 35th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,138 and had an average of $29,674 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 182 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $14,922 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value 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

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New England landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Biddeford, Maine, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s education students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine bachelor’s degree education students with aid list, UNE has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $34,118 for maine bachelor’s degree education students with aid per year to attend University of New England.

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%.

Full UNE General Education Report

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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