2024 Best Value Bachelor's Degree Colleges for Marine Sciences in Maine
1College
15,690Bachelor's Degrees
$33,524Avg Cost*
Finding the Best Value Marine Sciences School for You
With 15,690 bachelor's degrees handed out in 2021-2022, marine sciences is the #39 most popular major in Maine. This means that of the 5,415,716 bachelor's that were awarded in the country, 0.3% were from a college or university in the state.
To us, 'best value' doesn't just mean the school with the lowest overall costs. We are more focused on marine sciences schools that offer a high quality education at a price lower that other schools of similar academic excellence.
To determine the average cost, we look at total expenses - such as tuition, fees, room and board, books, and other related expenses - and then subtract the average financial award a student receives. Knowing this amount can help you determine how much you may have to borrow in loans or take out of savings. Depending on your income and other factors, the cost for you to attend a particular school may be more or less.
The marine sciences school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Value Marine Sciences Schools.
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2024 Best Value Marine Sciences School in Maine
The following school tops our list of the Best Marine Sciences Colleges for the Money.
Our rankings recognize University of Maine as the #1 school in this year's rankings. UMaine is a fairly large public school located in the small suburb of Orono. UMaine did well in our quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Marine Sciences Schools in Maine list.
The average student at UMaine graduates in less than 4.4 years, and the average full-time cost to attend the school is around $33,524. Putting this cost and the average time to graduate together, we find that the average amount you’ll pay to get a bachelor’s degree from UMaine is $146,835. When students graduate in a lesser amount of time, they can save thousands of dollars.
One of 0 majors within the Marine Science area of study, Marine Sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.
Notes and References
*These values are for the top school only.
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 the rest 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).
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