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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 12,032 people earned their degree in fine arts, making the major the 67th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 74 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 54 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fine arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great fine arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the fine arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree fine arts students with aid.

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

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid. This medium-sized school is located in Portland, Maine, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s fine arts degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Fine Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $12,339 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts students with aid per year to attend University of Southern Maine.

Read full report on Fine 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 Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid list. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 15 bachelors’s fine arts degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMaine, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Fine Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maine is $17,558 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Fine Arts at UMaine

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine Arts in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine 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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.

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