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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 29,892 people earned their degree in electrical engineering, making the major the 26th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 42 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in electrical engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality electrical engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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 electrical engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree ee students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Maine (With Aid)

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

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 EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid. Located in Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school awarded 15 degrees to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine also made our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for University of Southern Maine is $12,339 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree EE students with aid.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at University of Southern Maine

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid list. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine also made our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $17,558 for maine bachelor’s degree ee students with aid per year to attend University of Maine.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%.

Full UMaine Electrical Engineering Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering (With Aid)

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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