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2022 Best Vallue Marine Transport Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k

1 Ranked Colleges
30 Degrees Awarded
$24,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Vallue Marine Transport Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Making Over $110k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Marine Transport Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Marine Transportation is the 260th most popular major in the country with 1,288 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, marine transportation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,540 and had an average of $18,088 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 48 marine transportation graduates with average earnings and debt of $81,500 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 marine transportation graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

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

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the marine transportation program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Vallue Marine Transport Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Vallue Marine Transport Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Marine Transport Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Marine Transportation (Income Over $110k) in Maine

#1

Maine Maritime Academy

Castine, Maine

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Marine Transport Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Maine Maritime Academy landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Castine, Maine, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s marine transport degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Maine Maritime, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Marine Transportation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $23,239 for maine bachelor’s degree marine transport students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Maine Maritime.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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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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