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2022 Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k

1 Ranked Colleges
11 Degrees Awarded
$22,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 6,199 people earned their degree in public policy, making the major the 116th most popular in the United States. 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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,229 and $177,250 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public policy programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the public policy program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Public Policy Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine doctor’s degree public policy students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy (Income $75-$110k) in Maine

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Southern Maine is located in Portland, Maine and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 doctorate’s public policy degrees to qualified students.

University of Southern Maine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Public Policy Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern Maine are $22,308.

Full University of Southern Maine Public Policy Report

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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