2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Germanic Languages 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 German Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,415 people earned their degree in Germanic languages, making the major the 216th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, Germanic languages graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $34,200 and had an average of $22,114 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 17 Germanic languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 Germanic languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality Germanic languages 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 Germanic languages program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 “Best Value German Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value German Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value German Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Germanic Languages in Maine

#1

Colby College

Waterville, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,777 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colby College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value German Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine list. Colby College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Waterville, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Colby, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Germanic Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Colby is $17,777 for maine bachelor’s degree german students.

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 impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Germanic Languages at Colby

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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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