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2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
227 Degrees Awarded
$9,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 3rd of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 559,661 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $26,786 and had an average of $16,538 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 655 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,300 and $15,791 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 227 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in liberal arts / sciences and humanities. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality liberal arts / sciences and humanities programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the liberal arts / sciences and humanities program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Machias. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Machias, Maine, this small public school awarded 12 degrees to qualified bachelors’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities students in 2019-2020.

University of Maine-Machias also took the #4 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maine at Machias is $7,818 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities students whose families make $0-$30k.

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#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k 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 awarded 25 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities students in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Maine is $13,989 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. This medium-sized school is located in Portland, Maine, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine also took the #3 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Southern Maine is $8,753 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities students whose families make $0-$30k.

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#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Augusta. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k. Augusta, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees to 143 students in 2019-2020.

UMA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maine at Augusta is $9,287 for maine bachelor’s degree liberal arts / sciences & humanities students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full University of Maine at Augusta Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Report

#5 in overall quality

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 #5 for the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k. University of Maine at Presque Isle is a small public school situated in Presque Isle, Maine. It awarded 15 bachelors’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMPI, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $9,206 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend UMPI.

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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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