2022 Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s 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 Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Chemical Engineering is the 66th most popular major in the country with 13,610 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, chemical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,963 and had an average of $22,564 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 45 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,400 and $25,589 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality chemical engineering 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 chemical engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

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

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

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

$71,575 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Chem Eng 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. University of Maine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 43 bachelors’s chem eng degrees to qualified students.

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

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 full report on Chemical Engineering at UMaine

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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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