2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Curriculum & Instruction Major in Maine

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Curriculum & Instruction Major in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 19,832 people earned their degree in curriculum and instruction, making the major the 46th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 33 curriculum and instruction graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 curriculum and instruction graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Curriculum & Instruction Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in curriculum and instruction. That schools that top this list have a program in curriculum and instruction in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Curriculum & Instruction Major in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree curriculum & instruction students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Curriculum & Instruction in Maine

1

University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

#9 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Curriculum & Instruction Major in Maine 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 medium-sized public school situated in Portland, Maine. It awarded 15 masters’s curriculum and instruction degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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%.

Full University of Southern Maine Curriculum & Instruction Report

2

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

#6 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Curriculum & Instruction Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. UMaine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 11 masters’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%.

Read full report on Curriculum & Instruction at UMaine

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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.

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