Writing Studies is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #81 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Maine to determine which ones were the best for writing studies students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 83 degrees in writing studies to qualified students.
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 Writing Studies Schools in Maine list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the writing degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Southern Maine is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in writing studies. Located in the small city of Portland, University of Southern Maine is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.
Those writing studies students who get their degree from University of Southern Maine make $8,707 more than the typical writing graduate.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).