2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Science, Technology & Society (Income Over $110k) in Maine

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Vallue Science, Tech & Society Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Science, Technology & Society is the 225th most popular major in the country with 1,072 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, science, technology and society graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,000 and had an average of $27,321 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 4 science, technology and society graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 science, technology and society graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality science, technology and society programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the science, technology and society program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Vallue Science, Tech & Society Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree science, tech & society students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Science, Technology & Society (Income Over $110k) in Maine

#1

Colby College

Waterville, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,777 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Science, Tech & Society Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Colby College landed the #1 spot on the list. Colby College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Waterville, Maine. It awarded 4 bachelors’s science, tech and society degrees in 2019-2020.

Colby not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Science, Technology & Society Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $17,777 for maine bachelor’s degree science, tech & society students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Colby.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, 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 91%.

Read more about Science, Technology & Society at Colby

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Science, Technology & Society (Income Over $110k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Science, Technology & Society (Income Over $110k)

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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