2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Maine

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 25,951 people earned their degree in electrical engineering, making the major the 30th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 49 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 46 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,251 and $23,910 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Maine” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in electrical engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their electrical engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Maine”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Maine

1

University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

#9 overall quality in Maine

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 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Maine. Located in Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school handed out 28 degrees to qualified bachelors’s ee students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at University of Southern Maine

2

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

#6 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. UMaine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 18 bachelors’s ee degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 full report on Electrical 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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