2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Hospitality Administration/Management in Maine

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 10,363 people earned their degree in general hospitality administration/management, making the major the 80th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 43 general hospitality administration/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 general hospitality administration/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general hospitality administration/management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general hospitality administration/management 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 general hospitality administration/management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree hotel & restaurant management students.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Hospitality Administration/Management in Maine

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine list. This medium-sized school is located in Portland, Maine, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $12,339 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Hotel & Restaurant Management students per year to attend University of Southern Maine.

Read more about General Hospitality Administration/Management at University of Southern Maine

#2

Husson University

Bangor, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$18,286 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Husson University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine list. Located in Bangor, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 15 degrees to qualified bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management students in 2019-2020.

Husson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend Husson is $18,286 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Hotel & Restaurant Management students.

Read full report on General Hospitality Administration/Management at Husson University

#3

Thomas College

Waterville, Maine

#3 in overall quality

$20,819 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Thomas College landed the #3 spot on the list. Thomas College is located in Waterville, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management degrees to qualified students.

Thomas College also made our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $20,819 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Hotel & Restaurant Management students per year to attend Thomas College.

Full Thomas College General Hospitality Administration/Management 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).
• 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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