2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking.

Public Policy is the 116th most popular major in the country with 6,199 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public policy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,077 and had an average of $35,743 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 35 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great public policy programs and cost less that 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 public policy program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree public policy students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$22,308 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$49,019 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k list. University of Southern Maine is a medium-sized school located in Portland, Maine that handed out 21 masters’s public policy degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine also took the #1 spot in our “Best Public Policy Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern Maine are $22,308, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Public Policy at University of Southern Maine

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy (Income $48-$75k)

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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