by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maine” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Health Professions is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 2nd of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 977,800 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,927 and had an average of $20,846 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maine, there were 3,505 health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,939 and $25,454 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 459 health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in health professions. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their health professions program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree health professions students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New England. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maine. UNE is a medium-sized school located in Biddeford, Maine that handed out 247 masters’s health professions degrees 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%.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. Saint Joseph’s College of Maine is located in Standish, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 58 masters’s health professions degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Health Professions at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Husson University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maine. Husson is located in Bangor, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 48 masters’s health professions degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #4 spot on the list. Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s health professions degrees to 78 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Health Professions at University of Southern Maine
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maine. UMaine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 28 masters’s health professions degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
With a ranking of #6, Beal College did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maine list. Beal College is a small school located in Bangor, Maine that handed out 152 masters’s health professions degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.
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