2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in Maine

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 56,273 people earned their degree in family, consumer and human sciences, making the major the 21st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, family, consumer and human sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,430 and had an average of $24,438 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 124 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,800 and $26,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 82 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality family, consumer and human sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the family, consumer and human sciences program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences 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 77 bachelors’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMaine, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Maine is $17,558 for maine bachelor’s degree family, consumer & human sciences 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%.

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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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