2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Income Over $110k) in Maine

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Family, Consumer & Human Sciences is the 21st most popular major in the country with 56,273 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, family, consumer and human sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,430 and had an average of $24,438 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 124 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,800 and $26,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 82 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality family, consumer and human sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the family, consumer and human sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Vallue Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree family, consumer & human sciences students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Income Over $110k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school awarded 77 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s family, consumer and human sciences students in 2019-2020.

UMaine also made our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maine is $17,558 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Family, Consumer & Human Sciences students whose families make more than $110k.

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 Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Income Over $110k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Income Over $110k)

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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