2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in Maine (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 47,598 people earned their degree in mechanical engineering, making the major the 20th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, mechanical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $64,495 and had an average of $23,104 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 111 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,000 and $26,230 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality mechanical engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the mechanical engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in Maine (With Aid)

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid list. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 8 masters’s ME degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine master’s degree me students with aid list, UMaine has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UMaine are $28,352.

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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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Michel Villeneuve.

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