2022 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies is the 30th most popular major in the country with 16,240 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,827 and had an average of $22,562 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 129 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $13,289 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 128 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies 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 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies 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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The area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies 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 Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine”.

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Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in Maine

#1

Bowdoin College

Brunswick, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$21,910 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Bowdoin College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bowdoin College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Brunswick, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 62 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Bowdoin did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for Bowdoin College is $21,910 for maine bachelor’s degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies

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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