2023 Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k
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Ranked Colleges
21
Degrees Awarded
$8,300
Avg Net Price*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.
Adult & Continuing Education is the 432nd most popular major in the country with 1,074 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Maine, there were 21 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality adult and continuing education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the adult and continuing 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.
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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 Adult and Continuing Ed Schools 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 Adult and Continuing Ed Schools in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k
The colleges and universities below are the best for maine adult and continuing ed students whose families make $0-$30k.
Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education (Income $0-$30k) in Maine
Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Southern Maine is located in Portland, Maine and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 21 ’s adult and continuing ed degrees to qualified students.
University of Southern Maine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $8,338 for maine adult and continuing ed students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Southern Maine.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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 Adult & Continuing Education at University of Southern 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
- *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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