2023 Most Focused Colleges for Behavioral Science in Maine

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 4,169 people earned their degree in behavioral science, making the major the 141st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, behavioral science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,701 and had an average of $35,804 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 13 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,307 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Maine” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in behavioral science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in behavioral science.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine behavioral science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Behavioral Science in Maine

1

University of Maine at Fort Kent
Fort Kent, Maine

#12 overall quality in Maine

$61,135 Average Early-Career Earnings

$31,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine at Fort Kent landed the #1 spot on the list. UMFK is a small public school situated in Fort Kent, Maine. It awarded 11 ’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Behavioral Science at University of Maine at Fort Kent

2

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

#6 overall quality in Maine

$40,242 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,875 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Maine. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 2 ’s behavioral science 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%.

Read more about Behavioral Science at UMaine

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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

• *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.

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