2022 Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Civil Engineering is the 45th most popular major in the country with 21,561 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great civil engineering 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 civil engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that 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 Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

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

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

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

$54,996 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Civil 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 a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 48 bachelors’s civil eng degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend UMaine is $17,558 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Civil 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 more about Civil Engineering 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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