2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Area Studies in Maine
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Area Studies Major in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Area Studies is the 115th most popular major in the country with 6,257 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , area studies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $33,127 and had an average of $22,500 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maine, there were 77 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,244 and $24,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 77 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,251 and $23,910 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in area studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their area studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Maine
The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree area studies students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Area Studies in Maine
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Bowdoin College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bowdoin is a small school located in Brunswick, Maine that handed out 47 bachelors’s area studies degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Bowdoin College Area Studies Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Colby College landed the #2 spot on the list. Colby College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Waterville, Maine. It awarded 14 bachelors’s area studies degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.
Read full report on Area Studies at Colby
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bates College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Maine list. Bates is located in Lewiston, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 16 bachelors’s area studies degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Bates College Area Studies Report
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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
- *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.
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