When it comes to choosing a college, student athletes have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its Best Colleges for Division III Men's Football in Maine ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Maine to determine which ones were the best for D3 Men's Football athletes in Maine. Our ranking is based on several objective factors, including the school's overall quality and the athletic competitiveness of the school. We steer clear of subjective measures since they don't give a clear picture when determining how one school compares to another. So, even if a school has a great team, it won't place well if it is also considered a low quality college or university.
Since one ranking on its own is not enough to give you a complete understanding of your educational options, you can refine this list by location. We've also developed a number of other tools and rankings based on other factors. These other rankings highlight colleges that excel in other factors such as value or diversity as well as schools that excel in serving different groups of students such as online students or returnings adults.
We've created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don't have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
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Top Colleges in Maine for D3 Men's Football athletes in Maine
Our analysis found Colby College to be the best school for D3 Men’s Football athletes in Maine in this year’s ranking. Colby College is a small private not-for-profit school located in Waterville, Maine that handed out 734 bachelor’s degrees in .
Speaking financially, the D3 Men’s Football team at Colby took home $852,876 in revenue.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. Colby not only placed well in this ranking, but it is also #2 on our overall quality list.
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Out of the 3 schools in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Bates College landed the #2 spot on the list. Bates is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Lewiston, Maine. It awarded 601 bachelor’s degrees in .
Bates brought in $637,177 while tallying up $599,090 in expenses for its D3 Men’s Football team. Thus, the team actually made $38,087, which isn’t bad at all.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. Bates also took the #3 spot in our overall quality rankings.
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You’ll join some of the best athletes around if you attend Maine Maritime Academy. The school came in at #3 in this year’s ranking. Maine Maritime is a small public school situated in Castine, Maine. It awarded 165 bachelor’s degrees in .
The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Maine Maritime not only placed well in this ranking, but it is also #4 on our overall quality list.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 3 schools only.
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.
The academic progress rate (APR) of each team was made available by the NCAA.
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%.
