2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Ethnic Studies for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$27,200
Avg Cost*
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Ethnic Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Ethnic Studies is the 99th most popular major in the country with 9,231 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, ethnic studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,818 and had an average of $22,901 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maine, there were 35 ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,463 and $30,985 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality ethnic studies programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the ethnic studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Ethnic Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Ethnic Studies for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Ethnic Studies for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Ethnic Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Maine
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bowdoin College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Ethnic Studies for a Bachelor’s list. Bowdoin is a private not-for-profit institution located in Brunswick, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Bowdoin also took the #1 spot in our “Best Ethnic Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking.Among the 1,777 students enrolled at Bowdoin, 17 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 9 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $24,044. During this same period, 11 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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