2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Maine
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Liberal Arts General Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 1st of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 556,813 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, liberal arts general studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,337 and had an average of $17,430 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maine, there were 639 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,098 and $19,968 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Maine” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in liberal arts general studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in liberal arts general studies.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Maine
The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree liberal arts students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in Maine
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts landed the #1 spot on the list. IDSVA is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Portland, Maine. It awarded 4 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full IDSVA Liberal Arts General Studies Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school handed out 59 degrees to qualified masters’s liberal arts students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.