2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Information Technology in Maine

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Information Technology is the 35th most popular major in the country with 31,531 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Maine, there were 26 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,263 and $19,245 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Maine” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in information technology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their information technology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine associate degree it students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Information Technology in Maine

1

University of Maine at Augusta
Augusta, Maine

#14 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine at Augusta landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Maine at Augusta is located in Augusta, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 associates’s IT degrees to qualified students.

Full UMA Information Technology Report

2

Beal College
Bangor, Maine

#19 overall quality in Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Beal College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Maine. Located in Bangor, Maine, this small private for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s IT students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Read more about Information Technology at Beal 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.