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2022 Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

6 Ranked Colleges
144 Degrees Awarded
$20,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking.

Elementary Education is the 19th most popular major in the country with 40,622 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maine, there were 144 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 144 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in elementary education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great elementary education programs and 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 elementary education program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

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

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Education in Maine

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Farmington. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine. Farmington, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s elementary teaching degrees to 33 students in 2019-2020.

UMaine Farmington also took the #2 spot in our “Best Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UMaine Farmington is $14,548 for maine bachelor’s degree elementary teaching students.

Read more about Elementary Education at UMaine Farmington

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine. University of Maine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 45 bachelors’s elementary teaching degrees to qualified students.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $17,558 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Elementary Teaching students per year to attend UMaine.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%.

Read more about Elementary Education at University of Maine

#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Presque Isle. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine. Located in Presque Isle, Maine, this small public school handed out 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s elementary teaching students in 2019-2020.

UMPI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maine at Presque Isle is $10,637 for maine bachelor’s degree elementary teaching students.

Read more about Elementary Education at UMPI

#4

Husson University

Bangor, Maine
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Husson University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine. Husson is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bangor, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Husson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for Husson University is $18,286 for maine bachelor’s degree elementary teaching students.

Full Husson Elementary Education Report

#5

University of New England

Biddeford, Maine
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New England. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine. University of New England is a private not-for-profit institution located in Biddeford, Maine. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UNE also took the #1 spot in our “Best Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $34,118 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Elementary Teaching students per year to attend UNE.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of New England Elementary Education Report

#3 in overall quality

Saint Joseph’s College of Maine did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine ranking, coming in at #6. Saint Joseph’s Maine is located in Standish, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 bachelors’s elementary teaching degrees to qualified students.

Saint Joseph’s Maine also made our “Best Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $26,929 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Elementary Teaching students per year to attend Saint Joseph’s Maine.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%.

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

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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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