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

Student Counseling is the 73rd most popular major in the country with 14,055 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, student counseling graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,174 and had an average of $42,631 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 41 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,300 and $37,740 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 36 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in student counseling. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent student counseling 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 student counseling program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$22,308 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$40,419 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k. Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s student counseling degrees to 29 students in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Student Counseling Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern Maine are $22,308, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Student Counseling at University of Southern Maine

#2

Husson University

Bangor, Maine

$17,100 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Husson University landed the #2 spot on the list. Husson University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bangor, Maine. It awarded 7 masters’s student counseling degrees in 2019-2020.

Husson also made our “Best Student Counseling Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at Husson are $17,100, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Student Counseling at Husson

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling (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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