2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics in Maine (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Math Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Mathematics is the 32nd most popular major in the country with 31,080 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, mathematics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $44,066 and had an average of $21,378 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 151 mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,400 and $18,300 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 151 mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

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

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the mathematics 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Math Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Math Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics in Maine (With Aid)

#1

Bates College

Lewiston, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$29,321 Average Net Price

$38,289 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Math Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Bates College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bates is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Lewiston, Maine. It awarded 32 bachelors’s math degrees in 2019-2020.

Bates did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Mathematics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $29,321 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Math students with aid per year to attend Bates College.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics (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.

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