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2022 Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
48 Degrees Awarded
$14,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

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 Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 21,561 people earned their degree in civil engineering, making the major the 45th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, civil engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,122 and had an average of $23,807 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 65 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,800 and $26,327 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 48 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent civil engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the civil engineering 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

The civil eng school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k”.

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Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s civil eng degrees to 48 students in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $13,989 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Civil Eng students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend UMaine.

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 more about Civil Engineering at UMaine

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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