2022 Best Value CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

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In 2019-2020, 53,722 people earned their degree in computer science, making the major the 19th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, computer science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,561 and had an average of $23,565 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 126 computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $88,700 and $23,922 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 CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in computer science. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent computer science programs, but they also cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine.

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

$65,477 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s compsci degrees to 24 students 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 estimated yearly cost for University of Southern Maine is $12,339 for maine bachelor’s degree compsci students.

Full University of Southern Maine Computer Science Report

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

$55,512 Average Early-Career Earnings

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 CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school awarded 21 degrees to qualified bachelors’s compsci students in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $17,558 for maine bachelor’s degree compsci students per year to attend University of Maine.

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%.

Read more about Computer Science at UMaine

#3

Bowdoin College

Brunswick, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$21,910 Average Net Price

$78,971 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Bowdoin College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Brunswick, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 25 degrees to qualified bachelors’s compsci students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Bowdoin, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $21,910 for maine bachelor’s degree compsci students per year to attend Bowdoin.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Computer Science at Bowdoin

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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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