Social Work is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #13 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Maine to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of social work. Combined, these schools handed out 328 degrees in social work to qualified students.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Social Work Schools in Maine list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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The schools below may not offer all types of social work degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Southern Maine is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in social work. University of Southern Maine is a medium-sized public university located in the small city of Portland.
Soon after graduation, social work degree recipients typically make about $44,727 in their early careers.
It is hard to beat University of Maine if you want to pursue a degree in social work. UMaine is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Orono.
Those social work students who get their degree from University of Maine make $5,140 more than the typical social work student.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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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