2022 Best Value Special Ed 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. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Special Education is the 39th most popular major in the country with 33,249 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, special education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,879 and had an average of $28,500 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 113 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in special education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great special education programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the special education program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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

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

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

#1

University of Maine at Farmington

Farmington, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$11,215 Average Net Price

$33,565 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine at Farmington. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. University of Maine at Farmington is a small school located in Farmington, Maine that handed out 17 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine Farmington did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Special Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Maine at Farmington is $11,215 for maine bachelor’s degree special ed students whose families make $0-$30k.

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#2

Saint Joseph's College of Maine

Standish, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$21,729 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k. Saint Joseph’s Maine is a private not-for-profit institution located in Standish, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Saint Joseph’s Maine also took the #1 spot in our “Best Special Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Saint Joseph’s College of Maine is $21,729 for maine bachelor’s degree special ed students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Special Education at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine

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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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