2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in Maine (With Aid)

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In 2019-2020, 47,598 people earned their degree in mechanical engineering, making the major the 20th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, mechanical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $64,495 and had an average of $23,104 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 111 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,000 and $26,230 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 101 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value ME Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in mechanical engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent mechanical engineering programs, but they also cost less that 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 mechanical engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value ME Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid.

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

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

$62,154 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value ME Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid list. This medium-sized school is located in Portland, Maine, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s ME degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine bachelor’s degree me students with aid list, University of Southern Maine has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $12,339 for maine bachelor’s degree me students with aid per year to attend University of Southern Maine.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern Maine

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

$64,558 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value ME Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s ME degrees to 85 students in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $17,558 for maine bachelor’s degree me students with aid per year to attend University of Maine.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical 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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Michel Villeneuve.

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