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2022 Best Value Marine Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
49 Degrees Awarded
$17,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Marine Sciences Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Marine Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 312 people earned their degree in marine sciences, making the major the 738th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 64 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 marine sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent marine sciences 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 marine 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 Value Marine Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Marine Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid.

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

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Marine Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. UMaine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 44 bachelors’s marine sciences degrees to qualified students.

UMaine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Marine Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $17,558 for maine bachelor’s degree marine sciences students with aid per year to attend UMaine.

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 Marine Sciences at University of Maine

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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