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2022 Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k

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227 Degrees Awarded
$15,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 559,661 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, liberal arts general studies is the 1st most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, liberal arts general studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $26,786 and had an average of $16,538 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 655 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,300 and $15,791 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 227 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in liberal arts general studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality liberal arts general studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the liberal arts general studies 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 Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree liberal arts students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies (Income $75-$110k) 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 Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s liberal arts degrees to 25 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine bachelor’s degree liberal arts students whose families make $75-$110k list, UMaine has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UMaine is $20,312 for maine bachelor’s degree liberal arts students whose families make $75-$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%.

Read full report on Liberal Arts General Studies at University of Maine

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine at Machias landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Maine at Machias is a small public school situated in Machias, Maine. It awarded 12 bachelors’s liberal arts degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Maine-Machias not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Maine at Machias is $12,177 for maine bachelor’s degree liberal arts students whose families make $75-$110k.

Full University of Maine-Machias Liberal Arts General Studies Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Augusta. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k. University of Maine at Augusta is a public institution located in Augusta, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 143 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UMA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for UMA is $15,244 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Liberal Arts students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read full report on Liberal Arts General Studies at UMA

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine at Presque Isle landed the #4 spot on the list. University of Maine at Presque Isle is a public institution located in Presque Isle, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 15 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMPI, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UMPI is $12,990 for maine bachelor’s degree liberal arts students whose families make $75-$110k.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Maine. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k. University of Southern Maine is a public institution located in Portland, Maine. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine also took the #3 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Southern Maine is $16,543 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Liberal Arts students whose families make $75-$110k.

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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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