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2022 Best Value English Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k

5 Ranked Colleges
157 Degrees Awarded
$11,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value English Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k

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 English Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General English Literature is the 22nd most popular major in the country with 41,945 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general English literature graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $27,525 and had an average of $23,628 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 167 general English literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,400 and $24,883 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 157 general English literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value English Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in general English literature. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general English literature programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general English literature program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value English Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value English Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General English Literature (Income $30-$48k) in Maine

#1

Bates College

Lewiston, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bates College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value English Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k. Bates is a small school located in Lewiston, Maine that handed out 16 bachelors’s English degrees in 2019-2020.

Bates also took the #2 spot in our “Best General English Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Bates is $9,039 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree English students whose families make $30-$48k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General English Literature at Bates College

#2

Bowdoin College

Brunswick, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bowdoin College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value English Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k. Bowdoin College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Brunswick, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Bowdoin, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General English Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Bowdoin College is $12,603 for maine bachelor’s degree english students whose families make $30-$48k.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 1.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Bowdoin College General English Literature Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Maine. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value English Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k. University of Southern Maine is a public institution located in Portland, Maine. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 27 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine also took the #4 spot in our “Best General English Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Southern Maine is $9,295 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree English students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read more about General English Literature at University of Southern Maine

#4

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value English Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school awarded 32 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s English students in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best General English Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for UMaine is $14,458 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree English students whose families make $30-$48k.

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 General English Literature at UMaine

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value English Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine at Farmington landed the #5 spot on the list. UMaine Farmington is located in Farmington, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 bachelors’s English degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our maine bachelor’s degree english students whose families make $30-$48k list, UMaine Farmington has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best General English Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $12,630 for maine bachelor’s degree english students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend University of Maine at Farmington.

Read full report on General English Literature at UMaine Farmington

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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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