by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Most Well Attended Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 55,820 people earned their degree in family, consumer and human sciences, making the major the 22nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, family, consumer and human sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,354 and had an average of $23,570 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maine, there were 91 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,757 and $25,624 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 56 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,463 and $30,985 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in family, consumer and human sciences. To top this list, a school must have a successful family, consumer and human sciences program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 47 bachelors’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New England landed the #2 spot on the list. Biddeford, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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