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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services in Maine

8 Ranked Colleges
168 Degrees Awarded
$9,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services is the 33rd most popular major in the country with 77,593 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, allied health and medical assisting services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $26,454 and had an average of $15,514 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 288 allied health and medical assisting services graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,990 and $15,691 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 168 allied health and medical assisting services graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,425 and $17,736 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in allied health and medical assisting services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great allied health and medical assisting services programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the allied health and medical assisting services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine.

Top 8 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services in Maine

#1

Southern Maine Community College

South Portland, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Maine Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine list. SMCC is located in South Portland, Maine and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 27 associates’s medical assisting degrees to qualified students.

SMCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $10,647 for maine associate degree medical assisting students per year to attend SMCC.

Full SMCC Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Maine Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine list. This small school is located in Bangor, Maine, and it awarded 22 associates’s medical assisting degrees in 2019-2020.

Eastern Maine Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $10,259 for Maine Associate Degree Medical Assisting students per year to attend Eastern Maine Community College.

Full Eastern Maine Community College Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kennebec Valley Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine. This small school is located in Fairfield, Maine, and it awarded 33 associates’s medical assisting degrees in 2019-2020.

Kennebec Valley Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for Kennebec Valley Community College is $7,693 for maine associate degree medical assisting students.

Full Kennebec Valley Community College Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Presque Isle. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine. Presque Isle, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s medical assisting degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

UMPI also took the #3 spot in our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UMPI is $10,637 for maine associate degree medical assisting students.

Read more about Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at University of Maine at Presque Isle

#5

Northern Maine Community College

Presque Isle, Maine

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Maine Community College landed the #5 spot on the list. Northern Maine Community College is a small public school situated in Presque Isle, Maine. It awarded 11 associates’s medical assisting degrees in 2019-2020.

Northern Maine Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for Northern Maine Community College is $9,206 for maine associate degree medical assisting students.

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Central Maine Community College landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine ranking. Central Maine Community College is a public institution located in Auburn, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 12 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Central Maine Technical College, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $7,029 for Maine Associate Degree Medical Assisting students per year to attend Central Maine Community College.

Full Central Maine Technical College Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Report

York County Community College ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine list. York County Community College is a small school located in Wells, Maine that handed out 12 associates’s medical assisting degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine associate degree medical assisting students list, York County Community College has also earned the #7 rank in our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for York County Community College is $8,359 for maine associate degree medical assisting students.

Read more about Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at York County Community College

#8 in overall quality

University of Maine at Augusta did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for an Associate in Maine ranking, coming in at #8. UMA is a small public school situated in Augusta, Maine. It awarded 7 associates’s medical assisting degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMA, the school also landed the #8 spot in our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Maine at Augusta is $10,631 for maine associate degree medical assisting students.

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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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