2022 Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Communications is the 65th most popular major in the country with 11,861 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maine, there were 30 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great communications programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the communications program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine list. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s communication arts degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine bachelor’s degree communication arts students list, UMaine has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Communications Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $17,558 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Communication Arts students per year to attend UMaine.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Communications 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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