2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Theater Arts is the 69th most popular major in the country with 11,561 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maine, there were 25 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in theater arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great theater arts 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 theater arts program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The theater school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in Maine (With Aid)

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school handed out 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s theater students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Southern Maine, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $12,339 for maine bachelor’s degree theater students with aid per year to attend University of Southern Maine.

Read full report on Theater Arts at University of Southern Maine

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid list. UMaine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 7 bachelors’s theater degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine also made our “Best Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $17,558 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Theater students with aid per year to attend University of Maine.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Theater Arts at UMaine

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts (With Aid)

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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