2022 Best Value Construction Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Construction Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking.

Construction Engineering Technology is the 156th most popular major in the country with 4,225 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, construction engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $61,333 and had an average of $22,033 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 32 construction engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,100 and $26,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 construction engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality construction engineering technology programs that also have a lower cost than 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 construction engineering technology 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 Construction Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Construction Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Construction Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering Technology in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

$61,218 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Construction Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. UMaine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 32 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMaine, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Construction Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UMaine is $17,558 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Construction Engineering Tech students.

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%.

Read full report on Construction Engineering Technology at UMaine

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering Technology in the New England Region
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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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