2022 Best Value ME 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. College Factual has developed its “Best Value ME Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,813 people earned their degree in mechanical engineering/mechanical technology/technician, making the major the 186th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 29 mechanical engineering/mechanical technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 mechanical engineering/mechanical technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great mechanical engineering/mechanical technology/technician programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the mechanical engineering/mechanical technology/technician program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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

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Best Value ME Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

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

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

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value ME 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 fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 29 bachelors’s ME tech 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 Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $17,558 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree ME Tech students per year to attend UMaine.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology at University 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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