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2022 Best Value Human Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
77 Degrees Awarded
$14,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Human Development Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Human Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

Human Development & Family Studies is the 41st most popular major in the country with 41,651 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, human development and family studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $27,032 and had an average of $24,110 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 81 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,800 and $26,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 77 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great human development and family studies programs and 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 human development and family studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Human Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Human Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Human Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Human Development & Family Studies (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Human Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 77 bachelors’s human development degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine also took the #1 spot in our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $13,989 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Human Development students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Maine.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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

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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