2022 Best Value Computer Science Schools for a Bachelor’s 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 “Best Value Computer Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 53,722 people earned their degree in computer science, making the major the 11th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 126 computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 110 computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Computer Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in computer science. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality computer science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the computer science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Computer Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

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

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computer Science in Maine

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#3 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Computer Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine list. University of Southern Maine is a medium-sized school located in Portland, Maine that handed out 24 bachelors’s computer science degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine also took the #3 spot in our “Best Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Southern Maine is $12,339 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science students.

Read more about Computer Science at University of Southern Maine

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Computer Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine. UMaine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 21 bachelors’s computer science degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMaine, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UMaine is $17,558 for maine bachelor’s degree computer science students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#3

Bowdoin College

Brunswick, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$21,910 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Computer Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Bowdoin College landed the #3 spot on the list. Brunswick, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s computer science degrees to 25 students in 2019-2020.

Bowdoin did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend Bowdoin College is $21,910 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Computer Science at Bowdoin 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

• *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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