2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in Maine

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Plant Sciences is the 162nd most popular major in the country with 3,246 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, plant sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $35,854 and had an average of $19,711 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 1 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality plant sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the plant sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Maine.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Maine list. UMaine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 masters’s plant sciences degrees to qualified students.

UMaine also took the #1 spot in our “Best Plant Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Plant Sciences at University of Maine

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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).
• 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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