2022 Best Value History Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value History Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 32,905 people earned their degree in history, making the major the 22nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, history graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,593 and had an average of $23,490 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 137 history graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,300 and $24,338 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 history graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,229 and $177,250 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent history programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the history program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value History Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine doctor’s degree history students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for History in Maine (With Aid)

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value History Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s history degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMaine, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best History Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for History in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for History (With Aid)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Abraham Ortelius.

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