2022 Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

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

In 2019-2020, 68,079 communication and media studies students received their degree, making the major the 9th most popular in the country. In 2017-2018, communication and media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,728 and had an average of $24,931 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 117 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,275 and $28,115 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 110 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in Maine (With Aid)

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

$32,658 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Southern Maine is a public institution located in Portland, Maine. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 66 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine bachelor’s degree communications students with aid list, University of Southern Maine has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $12,339 for maine bachelor’s degree communications students with aid per year to attend University of Southern Maine.

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#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

$34,348 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid list. University of Maine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 36 bachelors’s communications degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine also took the #1 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $17,558 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Communications students with aid per year to attend University of Maine.

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%.

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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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