2022 Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

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In 2019-2020, 33,249 people earned their degree in special education, making the major the 39th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, special education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,879 and had an average of $28,500 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 113 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in special education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality special education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the special education 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 Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Special Education in Maine

#1

University of Maine at Farmington

Farmington, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$14,548 Average Net Price

$33,565 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine at Farmington landed the #1 spot on the list. Farmington, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s special ed degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine bachelor’s degree special ed students list, UMaine Farmington has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Special Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UMaine Farmington is $14,548 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Special Ed students.

Read full report on Special Education at UMaine Farmington

#2

Saint Joseph's College of Maine

Standish, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$26,929 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine list. Saint Joseph’s Maine is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Standish, Maine. It awarded 4 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine bachelor’s degree special ed students list, Saint Joseph’s Maine has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Special Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $26,929 for maine bachelor’s degree special ed students per year to attend Saint Joseph’s 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%.

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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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