2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Fine Arts

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Fine Arts” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Fine Arts is the 66th most popular major in the country with 11,922 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Maine, there were 82 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Fine Arts” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in fine arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality fine arts programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the fine arts program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Fine Arts

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Fine Arts”.

Top 2 Best Fine Arts Colleges for Veterans in Maine

1

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

21 GI Bill® Students**

YES Student Veterans Organization

$16,419 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Fine Arts. University of Maine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 15 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.

UMaine also took the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.Among the 11,741 students enrolled at University of Maine, 21 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 17 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $16,419. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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

[Read full report on veteran student life at UMaine]](/colleges/university-of-maine/student-life/veterans/)

2

Maine College of Art
Portland, Maine

14 GI Bill® Students**

$19,045 Average GI Bill® Award

$32,495 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Maine College of Art. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Fine Arts. This small school is located in Portland, Maine, and it awarded 18 ’s fine arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Maine College of Art did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] on our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list.Our most recent data shows that 14 of the 435 students enrolled at Maine College of Art were GI Bill® students, of which 10 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $19,045. During this same period, 5 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Maine College of Art Veteran Student Life Report

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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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.