2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Mental & Social Health Services in Maine (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Mental Health Services Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Mental & Social Health Services is the 49th most popular major in the country with 27,516 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, mental and social health services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,724 and had an average of $46,468 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 157 mental and social health services graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,100 and $28,390 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 30 mental and social health services graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,425 and $17,736 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Mental Health Services Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mental and social health services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality mental and social health services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the mental and social health 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 Mental Health Services Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Mental Health Services Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Mental & Social Health Services in Maine (With Aid)

#1

Kennebec Valley Community College

Fairfield, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$7,693 Average Net Price

$26,353 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kennebec Valley Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Mental Health Services Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid. This small school is located in Fairfield, Maine, and it awarded 19 associates’s mental health services degrees in 2019-2020.

Kennebec Valley Community College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Mental & Social Health Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Kennebec Valley Community College is $7,693 for maine associate degree mental health services students with aid.

Read more about Mental & Social Health Services at Kennebec Valley Community College

#2

University of Maine at Augusta

Augusta, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$10,631 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Mental Health Services Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine at Augusta landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Augusta, Maine, and it awarded 5 associates’s mental health services degrees in 2019-2020.

UMA also made our “Best Mental & Social Health Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maine at Augusta is $10,631 for Maine Associate Degree Mental Health Services students with aid.

Full UMA Mental & Social Health Services Report

#3

Beal College

Bangor, Maine

#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Beal College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Mental Health Services Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Getting Aid. Located in Bangor, Maine, this small private for-profit school awarded 6 degrees to qualified associates’s mental health services students in 2019-2020.

Beal College also took the #3 spot in our “Best Mental & Social Health Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Full Beal College Mental & Social Health Services Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Mental & Social Health Services in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Mental & Social Health Services (With Aid)

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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