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2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

1 Ranked Colleges
14 Degrees Awarded
$28,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master's in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 21,561 people earned their degree in civil engineering, making the major the 45th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, civil engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,122 and had an average of $23,807 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 65 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,800 and $26,327 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great civil engineering 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 civil engineering 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 Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 14 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine master’s degree civil eng students whose families make $0-$30k list, UMaine has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Civil Engineering at University of Maine

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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