by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Maine” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 13,552 people earned their degree in journalism, making the major the 69th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,953 and had an average of $23,734 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maine, there were 30 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,203 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,463 and $30,985 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in journalism. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in journalism.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree journalism students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Maine list. UMaine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Husson University landed the #2 spot on the list. Husson is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bangor, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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