2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Higher Education/Higher Education Administration in Maine

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Higher Education/Higher Education Administration Major in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 4,709 people earned their degree in higher education/higher education administration, making the major the 160th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 32 higher education/higher education administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 higher education/higher education administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Higher Education/Higher Education Administration Major in Maine” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in higher education/higher education administration. That schools that top this list have a program in higher education/higher education administration in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Higher Education/Higher Education Administration Major in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree higher education/higher education administration students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Higher Education/Higher Education Administration in Maine

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University of Maine at Farmington
Farmington, Maine

#11 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Higher Education/Higher Education Administration Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine at Farmington landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Maine at Farmington is a small school located in Farmington, Maine that handed out 24 masters’s higher education/higher education administration degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Maine at Farmington Higher Education/Higher Education Administration Report

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University of Maine
Orono, Maine

#6 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Higher Education/Higher Education Administration Major in Maine list. University of Maine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 8 masters’s higher education/higher education administration degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%.

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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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