2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Maine

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Maine” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 28,844 people earned their degree in electrical engineering, making the major the 39th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, electrical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $74,380 and had an average of $24,114 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 34 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,961 and $26,197 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,463 and $30,985 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Maine” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in electrical engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in electrical engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Maine

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Maine

1

University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

#9 overall quality in Maine

$70,048 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Maine list. University of Southern Maine is a public institution located in Portland, Maine. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at University of Southern Maine

2

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

#6 overall quality in Maine

$67,874 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,197 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Maine list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s EE degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Maine Electrical Engineering Report

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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