2023 Best Value Communications Schools in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Communications Schools in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Communication & Media Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 10th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 66,787 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, communication and media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,115 and had an average of $25,414 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 124 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,923 and $39,229 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Communications Schools in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication and media studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent communication and media studies programs, but they also cost less that 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 communication and media studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Communications Schools in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Communications Schools in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine communications students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $30-$48k) in Maine

1

University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$9,167 Average Net Price

$42,906 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Communications Schools in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k list. Located in Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school awarded 64 degrees to qualified ’s communications students in 2020-2021.

University of Southern Maine also took the #2 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Southern Maine is $9,167 for maine communications students whose families make $30-$48k.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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%.

Full University of Southern Maine Communication & Media Studies Report

2

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$12,578 Average Net Price

$40,242 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Communications Schools in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s communications degrees to 55 students in 2020-2021.

UMaine also took the #1 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UMaine is $12,578 for maine communications students whose families make $30-$48k.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Communication & Media Studies at UMaine

• Best Value Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $30-$48k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $30-$48k)

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.