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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Biomedical Sciences in Maine

1 Ranked Colleges
23 Degrees Awarded
$10,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Biological & Biomedical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Maine

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Biological & Biomedical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Maine” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 169,876 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, biological and biomedical sciences is the 9th most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, biological and biomedical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,082 and had an average of $24,534 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 665 biological and biomedical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,740 and $24,090 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 23 biological and biomedical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,425 and $17,736 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent biological and biomedical sciences programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the biological and biomedical 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 Biological & Biomedical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Biological & Biomedical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Biological & Biomedical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Maine.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Biomedical Sciences in Maine

#1

Southern Maine Community College

South Portland, Maine
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Maine Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Biological & Biomedical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Maine. This medium-sized school is located in South Portland, Maine, and it awarded 10 associates’s biological and biomedical sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine associate degree biological & biomedical sciences students list, SMCC has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Biological & Biomedical Sciences Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for SMCC is $10,647 for maine associate degree biological & biomedical sciences students.

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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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