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

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 Value Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 38,020 people earned their degree in public health, making the major the 27th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, public health graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,740 and had an average of $35,895 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 178 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,500 and $39,667 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public health. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public health 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 public health program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. 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 “Best Value Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree public health students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$8,753 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. University of Southern Maine is a public institution located in Portland, Maine. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $8,753 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Public Health students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Southern Maine.

Read full report on Public Health at University of Southern Maine

#2

University of New England

Biddeford, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$29,294 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New England. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. University of New England is a medium-sized school located in Biddeford, Maine that handed out 7 bachelors’s public health degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine bachelor’s degree public health students whose families make $0-$30k list, UNE has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $29,294 for maine bachelor’s degree public health students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of New England.

The low student loan default rate of 2.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Health at University of New England

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (Income $0-$30k)

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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