2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Maine (With Aid)

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 “Best Value General Education Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 29,936 people earned their degree in general education, making the major the 28th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 182 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 71 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general education program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value General Education Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value General Education Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Education Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Maine (With Aid)

#1

Saint Joseph's College of Maine

Standish, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$9,482 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Education Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid. Standish, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s general education degrees to 55 students in 2019-2020.

Saint Joseph’s Maine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Saint Joseph’s Maine are $9,482, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about General Education at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education (With Aid)

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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