2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in Maine

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Early Childhood Education is the 34th most popular major in the country with 31,017 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maine, there were 137 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 42 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent early childhood 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 early childhood education program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree child development students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in Maine

#1

University of Maine at Farmington

Farmington, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$14,548 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Child development 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. University of Maine at Farmington is a public institution located in Farmington, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 41 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine Farmington did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maine at Farmington is $14,548 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Child development students.

Read more about Early Childhood Education at UMaine Farmington

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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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