2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in Maine

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 3,005 people earned their degree in sustainability science, making the major the 176th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, sustainability science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,827 and had an average of $23,160 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 13 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,463 and $30,985 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in Maine” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in sustainability science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sustainability science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree sustainability science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Science in Maine

1

University of New England
Biddeford, Maine

#5 overall quality in Maine

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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in Maine. Biddeford, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s sustainability science degrees to 4 students 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%.

Read full report on Sustainability Science at University of New England

2

Unity College
Unity, Maine

#7 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Unity College landed the #2 spot on the list. Unity, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s sustainability science degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

Full Unity Sustainability Science Report

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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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