2022 Best Value Transportation & Materials Moving Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Transportation & Materials Moving Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 26,683 people earned their degree in transportation and materials moving, making the major the 33rd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, transportation and materials moving graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $38,851 and had an average of $15,285 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 60 transportation and materials moving graduates with average earnings and debt of $81,500 and $27,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 18 transportation and materials moving graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,425 and $17,736 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality transportation and materials moving 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 transportation and materials moving program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Transportation & Materials Moving Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Transportation & Materials Moving Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Transportation & Materials Moving Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Transportation & Materials Moving (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

Maine Maritime Academy

Castine, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$19,331 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Transportation & Materials Moving Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Maine Maritime Academy landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Castine, Maine, this small public school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified associates’s transportation and materials moving students in 2019-2020.

Maine Maritime did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Transportation & Materials Moving Associate Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend Maine Maritime is $19,331 for maine associate degree transportation & materials moving students whose families make $0-$30k.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 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 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Transportation & Materials Moving (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Transportation & Materials Moving (Income $0-$30k)

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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