2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Maine

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Maine” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Education is the 41st most popular major in the country with 29,810 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,719 and had an average of $23,394 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 153 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,907 and $14,725 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 65 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Maine” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general education.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Maine

1

Saint Joseph's College of Maine
Standish, Maine

#10 overall quality in Maine

$53,907 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Standish, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 57 diplomas to qualified masters’s education students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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

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Thomas College
Waterville, Maine

#15 overall quality in Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Thomas College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Maine. This small school is located in Waterville, Maine, and it awarded 8 masters’s education degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Thomas College General Education Report

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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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