2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

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In 2019-2020, 17,830 people earned their degree in hospitality management, making the major the 61st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, hospitality management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,271 and had an average of $21,829 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 53 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,600 and $16,997 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in hospitality management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality hospitality management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the hospitality management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree hospitality students.

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

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

$32,569 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine list. Located in Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school handed out 13 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s hospitality students in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $12,339 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Hospitality students per year to attend University of Southern Maine.

Full University of Southern Maine Hospitality Management Report

#2

Husson University

Bangor, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$18,286 Average Net Price

$36,668 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Husson University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine. This small school is located in Bangor, Maine, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Husson, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $18,286 for maine bachelor’s degree hospitality students per year to attend Husson University.

Full Husson Hospitality Management Report

#3

Thomas College

Waterville, Maine

#3 in overall quality

$20,819 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Thomas College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine. Thomas College is a small school located in Waterville, Maine that handed out 1 bachelors’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

Thomas College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend Thomas College is $20,819 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Hospitality students.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at Thomas College

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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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