2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in Maine

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

With 101,094 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, accounting is the 8th most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, accounting graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $44,557 and had an average of $26,381 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 177 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,975 and $32,191 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent accounting 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 accounting 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.

More Ways to Rank Accounting Schools

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 Accounting Schools for a Master’s in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in Maine

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

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

#1

Saint Joseph's College of Maine

Standish, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$9,482 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$58,673 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in Maine. Saint Joseph’s College of Maine is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Standish, Maine. It awarded 12 masters’s accounting degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Saint Joseph’s Maine, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine are $9,482.

Read full report on Accounting at Saint Joseph’s College 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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